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11-03-2024 6:17 am • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK BreakfastBelow are fast-breaking news items.
Two upcoming meetings offer opportunities to let politicians and community leaders hear your views on economic inequality, gentrification and more.
READ MORECentennial High School announced today that Kaitlin Roig, a Sandy Hook elementary school teacher, will speak to the student body on February 21, 2014, as part of the school's Annual Unity Week Celebration.
On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School, first grade teacher Kaitlin Roig endured one of the worst tragedies the world has ever seen. Her heroic act is credited with saving the lives of all 15 of her students by acting quickly upon hearing the sounds of gunfire and locking them all in a small bathroom until the 'good guys' came to let her know that it was over and they were now safe to come out.
During Unity Week, Centennial High School chooses a theme to celebrate diversity and promote community building and unity in the district. This year CHS is focusing on the ethics of caring and highlighting the importance of caring for each other as an element of building unity and respect within the community, something Roig has exemplified. As an educator, she believes teaching a social curriculum to her students is important. She views it as equally important as teaching an academic curriculum. Roig has always felt that teaching children to interact and care for one another prepares them to be successful adolescents and adults.
In 2007 Kaitlin Roig began teaching first grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School where she has taught ever since. There she has served on the Math Committee, Language Arts Committee, Action Research Committee, and Social Committee. She also began Marathon Mondays, a running club for 3rd and 4th grade students
Unity week at Centennial High School begins with an all school assembly where students will examine how they can improve their community by improving themselves. Students will once again participate in the "Name Tag" activity by identifying one quality they appreciate about themselves and one attribute they feel needs to be improved. On Thursday, February 20th, CHS will host Multicultural Night highlighting the vast and diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds of the student body. CHS will end the week with the presentation from Kaitlin Roig.
Watch the video of the Jan. 14 Race Talks event on Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline.
READ MORETri met has identified the four final choices in its call to name the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge.
READ MOREThe Skanner Foundation has received two grants totalling $34,000 to improve accessibility at the North Portland Multimedia Training Center and to train adults in video production.
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Lashai Williams was sentence to close to 8 years in prison for killing Billie Dee Andrea Pugh in a car crash April 28.
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A Portland Police officer arrested on a charge of criminal mischief, was involved in a police shooting in December 2001.
READ MOREThe PPS Focus on Diversity Film and Lecture Series is bringing to PPS students, teachers, staff and community members the Black History 101 Mobile Museum.
READ MOREThe Seattle Public Library is offering a series of Microsoft IT Academy open lab sessions beginning Thursday, Jan. 9 at the Central Library.
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