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Monday, 9/16, 4:15-6:15: Comedy of Errors & Prologue/Epilogue 

Tuesday, 9/17, 4:15-6:15: Comedy of Errors & Prologue/Epilogue

Wednesay 9/18, 4:15-6:15: Henry VI part 1 & Prologue/Epilogue

Thursday 9/19, CANCELED FOR BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT

Friday 9/20, 4:15-6:15: Henry VI part 1 & Prologue/ Epilogue

School photo retakes will take place on Friday, October 25th. Was your student absent for picture day? Are you unhappy with how your students' photos came out?

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Mark your calendars: 

September 19th, Outdoor School Family Information Session 5-5:50pm

September 19th, Back to School Night 6-8pm

September 25th, Early Release - School dismissal: 1:45pm

October 11th, Statewide Inservice, No School

October 25th, Picture Re-Takes

Outdoor School Family Info Session Night will be held from 5PM-5:50PM, on Sept 19th, prior to Back to School at 6PM.

An ODS representative hosting this event will also have a booth during Back to School that folks can stop by and ask her questions if they didn't get their questions answered in the Session, or were not able to make it early enough for the session. 

When Beckham Weatherby picks up his tuba, the rest of the world falls away. 

“I don’t get that nervous and I don’t get stage fright at all,” he said. “I guess I got lucky with how my body reacts to performing in front of crowds.”

Which is something the McDaniel High School junior has done quite a bit of lately. Not only is he a member of the prestigious Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) and the PYP conservatory orchestra, but he recently earned first prize in the tuba solo performance category at the Oregon State Solo Music Championships.

The first things you notice when you walk into Ellie Jensen’s classroom at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary School are peace and warmth. Then you hear the laughter of children. Then you just might see two posters hanging on the walls that tell you a great deal about the kind of teacher she has been for the past 50 years. The posters simply say, “Leave a little sparkle wherever you go” and “Be a friend.”

Jensen, known as “Miss Ellie” to the hundreds of students she has taught in her half a century as a Portland Public Schools educator, can’t help but light up a room. And she is a friend to all children. 

We dare you to drive by the Mainspring Food Pantry on the corner of 82nd Avenue and Fremont and not do a double take. Or a triple take. 

Students from McDaniel High School’s art-focused Career Technical Education (CTE) class have spent the last four weeks turning the exterior walls of the pantry into one, huge, joyful mural as part of the course’s exploration of climate justice and community engagement.

A little over 30 years ago, a Madison High School student named Joseph Janson had a simple wish. He wanted to go to a dance. But nothing was simple for Joseph, who was born with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy and was confined to a wheelchair. 

He confided his wish to Tony Nitz, who at that time was an educational assistant at Madison (now Leodis V. McDaniel High School). Tony had been working one-on-one with Joseph for months and he immediately went about making the young man’s dream come true.

“The truth is, I would have done anything for Joseph,” Nitz said. “He was a unique person, and we had a very special bond.”