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Communities In Schools, the nation's leading organization dedicated to empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life, today released the results of a five-year comprehensive study with great news: the Communities In Schools model resulted in the strongest reduction in dropout rates of any dropout prevention program that has been evaluated.
April 13th
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2011 Race for Education
A successful partnership between the
Bellingham Public School Foundation
and
Communities In Schools of Whatcom County
Great weather for the 2011 Race for Education
A big thanks to
Whatcom Educational Credit Union
and all our other sponsors!
Bellingham Parks and Recreation
Bellingham Public Schools
Cascade Radio Group
Clean Water Services
Chris Roselli
Community Food Co-op
Costco
Data Doctors
Fairhaven Runners and Walkers
Fresh Start Espresso
Great Harvest Bread Co.
John Boswell
KVOS
Louis Auto Glass
North Cascades Health and Rehabilitation
Opportunity Council
Signs Plus
Silver Reef Casino
Sound Beverage
Sportsplex
The Bellingham Herald
Whatcom Family and Community Network
Western Washington University
425 Runners
$11,000 Raised for Kids
Save the Date
Race for Education 2012
Saturday, October 6th
Two Bellingham Schools administrators enjoy the Race with their children.
Trophies were awarded and prizes given
to those who stayed for the presentation.
Superintendent Greg Baker and Bellingham Public School Foundations Gennie Clawson thanking WECU Racer Thanh Larson
Geneva Elementary gets the prize for largest percentage of runners!
MC Chris Roselli gets a slap on the back for a job well done.
See more 2011 Race for Education pictures here
To learn about this past year's work with individual students, please click here!
Students from the Bellingham and Nooksack Valley school district were hilarious at our Third Annual Improv for Education event on April 16, 2011
Student’s Story of the Week:
Diane and Caleb
Remara Koppel, a resource coordinator for CIS, has recently been working on finding a volunteer who can help Diane, a young girl, with math. She is working on an Independent Learning class where she can complete work on her own time and will eventually get credit for 2 math classes.
To learn more about Diane and Caleb, click here!
Eric and Michael
Eric got involved in the mentoring program based on his grades from his last Semester of 8th grade. He and his mentor, Michael, have been meeting almost every week for the entire school year.
To learn more about Eric and Michael, click here!
Dan and Cody
Dan was recommended to the program by his mom and school counselor. He is a well-spoken, friendly guy who recently moved here from Tennessee and has been very accepting of the program. Cody is a Western student who is majoring in History and plays on the Ultimate Frisbee team.
To learn more about Dan and Cody, click here!
(Names have been changed in order to protect the privacy of our students)
Mentoring Update
The mentoring program has been going strong for its second year with more than twice the number of students involved! In addition to the Community Volunteer Mentoring program last year, we’ve added another component to our program; peer mentoring! A handful of Seniors and Juniors have volunteered their time afterschool to help out some of the Freshman students with homework and studying. Many of the students mentoring relationships have developed into friendships which in turn has bridged some gaps between the upper and lower classman at Sehome High School giving everyone a greater sense of community and school spirit. One of the goals of the mentoring program is to ease the transition process into high school. We are happy to see that through these built relationships and bridged gaps, the hardships involved in the transition process are reduced.
Here at Communities in Schools, we want to share the student’s achievements with you. This marks the start of ‘Student’s Story of the Week’, where we will be posting a new story each week about the success of students through the mentoring program, and the outstanding impact a mentor can have on a student’s life.
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Five-Year Comprehensive Evaluation Ranks Communities In Schools as the Most Effective Dropout Prevention Organization in America
Communities In Schools, the nation's leading organization dedicated to empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life, today released the results of a five-year comprehensive study with great news: the Communities In Schools model resulted in the strongest reduction in dropout rates of any dropout prevention program that has been evaluated. Specifically, it showed that Communities In Schools is unique in having an effect on both reducing dropout rates and increasing graduation rates; and that the Communities In Schools model is effective across states, school settings, grade levels and student ethnicities.
Compass 2 Campus Gears up for a third Year
Communities In Schools is please to support Compass 2 Campus - We are excited to be joining with C2C to help bring mentoring relationships to kids across Northwest Washington.
Compass 2 Campus is a program at Western Washington University designed to increase access to higher education by providing an opportunity for 5th grade students from traditionally underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds in Whatcom and Skagit counties to be mentored by university students.
Find out more here.
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