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Commodore Connections March 2024

Posted Date: 3/01/24 (10:13 AM)
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COMMODORE CONNECTIONS | COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER | MARCH 2024
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
  • Message from Trish
  • Friendly Reminders
  • Calendar Items and PDF attachments
Message from Trish Corsetti,  Principal 


Dear Commodore Options Families,
I hope everyone enjoyed some time away and relaxation over mid-winter break. After some emotionally exhausting few months of navigating the district's budget crisis, we all needed a break and now we can focus our positive and creativity energies to build a more positive and collaborative future together. You are the most important advocates and voices to support our options programs and our community will continue to be stronger with our collective efforts. Thank you for speaking up for our K-12 students!

Our staff is ready to focus on our spring calendar, student celebrations, and continued academic achievement. Please continue to communicate with your student's teachers and partner with them to support your student. We are a community of learners and our school is all about nurturing relationships with one another. We appreciate all of the amazing classroom volunteers and parents who are able to support their teachers in any capacity. Thank you for showing up and making a difference. 

March is Women's History Month and the 2024 theme is "Women who advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion". We have so many incredible women to recognize and celebrate in our own lives, community, and beyond. The National Women's History Alliance has some wonderful resources to enhance the classroom, family conversations, and our work with students. 

We are also accepting applications for ALL of our programs for next year and we will continue to give tours and communicate about available enrollment options.  Please visit our website for updated forms and information to share with family and friends. (see attachments below)

Commodore is a dynamic, K-12 learning community, supporting three growing programs and encouraging our families to participate in the classrooms and community events.  Thank you for all of your support!  

Warmly,
Tricia Corsetti, Principal

                                                              Campeche, Mexico...and their famous painted jaguars!

COMMODORE UPDATES
We are raising baby coho salmon in the EHHS science classroom! This is always a wonderful environmental science education experience for all of our students. Thank you Jen Heck for managing our salmon tank!! All students can visit the baby salmon in the morning with their teachers. We will be releasing them before spring break!! See photo below!



FRIENDLY REMINDERS
1. Encourage students to dress in layers and be prepared for rainy days and COLD recess! Please label water bottles too!
2. LUNCH accounts: Please update or add funds to student lunch accounts. If you need financial support, please let me know or complete the online form for Free and Reduced Lunch. Thank you. 
3. Attendance Matters! Please work with your students to arrive on time and be ready to learn. If they are sick, feverish, or unwell, please enter the absence through Family Access/Skyward or call in to excuse them and follow up with their classroom teachers. Thank you. 
4. Please support our PTOs: Odyssey, Mosaic and EHHS need your support this year. Please give your time, donations, or creative energy to help build community for your students and families. Thank you. 
5. For more detailed BISD information, please refer to the district's newsletters. https://www.bisd303.org/Page/14332


CALENDAR
Calendar
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH 2024

MARCH 2024

3/4/24 Odyssey Applications due for new students
3/7/24 EHHS PTO meeting 5:30 at Sister's 
3/11-15/24 Educational Support Professionals Week (We celebrate and appreciate all of our classified staff and paras!!)
3/15/24 MOSAIC Applications due for new families
3/22/24 Odyssey K-8 Talent Show at BHS Theater...more to come!
3/23/24 Partners in Poetry at BIMA (Fundraiser for BI Partners in Health Engage Youth)
3/31/24 EHHS Applications due for new students
4/1-4/5 Spring Break!





BISD SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS:  3/14 & 3/28 @ 5:45 pm (see BISD website for additional community meetings)

Bainbridge Island School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. For questions, please contact Civil Rights Coordinator, Kristen Haizlip at khaizlip@bisd303.org