BSD Family Connections Centers: Support for Families Impacted by the Pandemic
While the Bellevue School District has been operating Family Connections Centers for years, the ongoing pandemic has meant an increased need for support for Bellevue students and their families.Read More
BSD Family Connections Centers: Providing Support to Students and Families
Family Connections Centers have long been an important part of the Bellevue School District. A team of 12 work collaboratively to ensure that students have what they need to succeed in the classroom. That work often includes partnering with other staff at schools, such as counselors, and working with parents and guardians, as well as other organizations and community partners.Read More
BSD Family Connection Centers: Support for Families During the Holidays
Thanks to the generosity and compassion of our community partners, Bellevue School District Family Connections Centers provided families with food and grocery gift cards for the holiday!Read More
BSD Family Connections Centers: Thank You to Our Community Partners
The Bellevue School District’s Family Connections Centers (FCCs) have received an outpouring of support since the beginning of the pandemic. “We are going through this as a community – and we are a strong community,” says Melissa Slater, Equity Project Leader and National Board Program Coordinator as well as BSD’s Family Connections Centers coordinator. While Bellevue is generally perceived as a wealthy community without a population in need of support, there are many families in Bellevue in need of support and the need is growing in the face of the ongoing pandemic.Read More
Gift Ensures Better Outcomes for Students
The Bellevue Schools Foundation recently announced the Sherry Ladd Endowment for Teacher Development. This generous gift of $500,000 from a family Foundation, managed by Ladds’s husband and two brothers, will be used to encourage and support National Board Certification for teachers in the Bellevue School District by paying for certification costs not covered by BSD or BSF.Read More
Student Connectivity Fund Ensures Bellevue Students Ready to Learn
With a new school year ready to start, the Bellevue Chamber Foundation launched its fundraising campaign to provide access to high-speed internet to k-12 students in the Bellevue area. In partnership with the Bellevue School District, the program leverages Comcast’s low-cost Internet Essentials Program.Read More
Bellevue School District Receives $160,000 Grant from Bellevue City Council
On August 18, 2020, as part of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the City of Bellevue’s Human Services Commission voted to approve grants to four nonprofit agencies meeting the city’s eligibility criteria to address food insecurity, including $160,000 to Bellevue School District. The district will use the grant to distribute food and supplies for basic needs through the Family Connection Centers.Read More
Green Genius Program Receives Recycler of the Year Award
The Green Genius Program has been honored by the Washington State Recycling Association with the Recycler of the Year Award for the Youth Education category! The program is a partnership between Bellevue School District and the City of Bellevue aimed at reducing waste at all twenty-nine schools in the district.Read More
Schools Donate 12,089 Pounds of Food to Hopelink
The Bellevue School District has found ways to give back to the community both during the holiday season and beyond. Throughout the school year we have 11 elementary schools that participate in the EPA Northwest’s Food-Share program. The program allows students to set aside food they have not eaten during lunch such as fruit, milk and packaged vegetables.Read More
Recess Gets a Boost from Donors
In the spring of 2019, six Cherry Crest students decided to “make recess better” and launched a plan to raise funds for the school. Selling donuts door to door, the students donated nearly $500 to the elementary school. After surveying their classmates, the consensus improvement was to add Gaga Ball pits for students to use during recess.Read More