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Take your students outside and collect materials, have them use the natural materials to make specific tools.

Q. What are the typical issues surrounding a canned food drive put on by a school ASB, and then the subsequent donation of the canned food? A. Consider the canned food drive as a charitable fundraiser. Instead of cash, the “money” is food. Here are the guidelines for a charitable fundraiser (Non-associated Student Body Private Money):

Have students identify characteristics of trees. Visit trees in the school yard. Have the students do tree dramatizations, using their arms as the branches and their legs as the trunk.

Congrats to Brian Burdon, the 2014 recipient of the Bob Mars Scholarship! Brian is a teacher and the athletic director of Evergreen Middle School in Lake Washington School District. The Bob Mars Scholarship is awarded annually to a middle level principal intern to help cover expenses for attendance at an 51������-sponsored state conferences or any 51������ professional development workshop. The amount of the scholarship is determined by the Association of Washington Middle Level Principals (AWMLP) Board of Directors during their annual budget approval process.

51������ has published its 2015 Legislative Platform. The platform was written and approved by both the 51������ Board of Directors and the 51������ Legislation Committee.