October is Disability Awareness Month

Claudia Gordon is one of former President Barack Obama’s key advisors for disability issues. She was also the first female deaf African American lawyer to graduate law school and pursue a career devoted to helping individuals with disabilities. Today she works in a senior role at Sprint, a company with many accessibility features that enable people who are deaf to communicate. At the age of eight, Gordon began to develop severe pain in her ears, which resulted in her becoming permanently deaf. She faced discrimination in her own home country of Jamaica and realized she could not stay there, so she attended high school and college in America. By junior year of high school, she knew being a lawyer was the career she wanted to pursue. Gordon never let doubt or fear be a hindrance in her life. She made the best out of her disability and prospered.

Question of the Week: Who learned to write, read, and speak while being both deaf and blind?

 

Last week our new ASB officers were elected. Congratulations to our new ASB officers!

Winter Virtual Talent Show*: Showcase your talent through the leadership-hosted Winter Virtual Talent Show! Do you like to dance, sing, perform poetry, comedy stand up, play an instrument, act, or create art? Submit your talent to be featured in the virtual talent show this December! This is hosted by leadership students and all submissions will be compiled into one Stream video shared with Odle students and staff in December before winter break. Please upload your submissions to this Form by November 21. *This is separate from the June talent show hosted by Odle staff.

 

It’s officially SPIRIT WEEK! Submit your Spirit Week photos here to be included in the Yearbook!

Odle artists arise! Reflections is ON now and is calling creative minds!
Unleash your artistic talent and participate in Reflections 2020-2021!!!
This year reflections will be held virtually

Reflections is a nationally acclaimed student recognition program to encourage artistic creativity in the classroom and at home. Students of all grades and abilities may participate and explore the arts based on the 2020-2021 theme: ” I Matter Because…”

What’s new this year? Students will be submitting entries virtually only. Students submit their completed works of art in one or all of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts.
Deadline for submitting your entries is Thursday, November 19, 2020. More information regarding submission on the way.

Please keep an eye on VikingNewsletter and Odle PTSA website. Questions? Email: [email protected]

 

Answer: Helen Keller

The Bellevue School District acknowledges that we learn, work, live and gather on the Indigenous Land of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish and Snoqualmie Tribes. We thank these caretakers of this land, who have lived and continue to live here, since time immemorial.