No, there is not a threat to your child because of their participation in QUEST. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I can get on to the reason I chose this topic. If your children are anything like mine, and based on any number of conversations I’ve had with many of you [...]
The Parent Information Meeting provided a great deal of information to our parents about the changes coming to the QUEST program. There was not enough time to answer all the questions that people had in the time we had available that night, so Brian Fox, Director of Student Learning, brought a stack of your questions [...]
Last week we were proud to announce the Senate had passed legislation that for the first time included highly capable education in the definition of basic education. Late Monday night the House concurred, and on Thursday 2261 was officially sent to the Governor. It’s easy to miss what a truly monumental change this redefinition represents. [...]
Turnout at tonight’s parent information meeting was great. Over 200 parents were in attendance to hear Director of Student Learning Brian Fox, QUEST Program Coordinator Nancy Velazquez, and ABC President Christine Holland discuss the coming changes to our highly capable program. I’ll try to summarize some of the key elements of the discussion here. Christine [...]
The District has just released the list of the eight QUEST Regional Schools and their feeder schools. The schools are: Host Sites. . . .Feeder Schools Northwood. . . .Mountain View, Hilltop Shaw Road. . . .Spinning, Ridgecrest Sunrise. . . .Wildwood, Woodland Pope. . . .Hunt, Edgerton Brouillet. . . .Carson Zeiger. . . [...]
QUEST Scientists were awarded prizes at the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair, the South Sound Regional Science Fair, and at the Puyallup School District’s 11th Annual Science Fair. The State Science Fair was held at Olympic College in Bremerton. The South Sound Regional Science Fair took place at Pacific Lutheran University. The 11th Annual [...]
