Dear Parents & Guardians of Seward Elementary Students:

Recently the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) released the 2021-2022 Report Cards to the Public for each school district and school in Alaska. These Report Cards present information about performance for the 2021-2022 school year. During this first administration of The Alaska System of Academic Readiness (AK STAR) assessment, students in grades 3-9 were assessed in English Language Arts and Mathematics. Students in grades 5, 8, and 10 took the Alaska Science Assessment.

To view a 2021-2022 School or District Report Card to the Public, go to https://education.alaska.gov/compass/report-card. Once there, you will be able to select which School or District Report Card to the Public you wish to view. You will find ours listed under William H. Seward Elementary. This user-friendly website aims to provide families with clear, common information about all public schools and districts in our State. These Report Cards to the public contain data and information about academics, school environment, teacher quality, and more. If you are unable to access the Report Card to the Public online, please contact your student’s school.

We know that the Report Card to the Public is just one of many ways you will engage with us at Seward Elementary. We look forward to sharing our school’s successes with you, and working together to make our school better every day.

We hope you will closely follow your student’s academic progress and work with his or her teacher(s) to help ensure academic success. Working together as a team, we can improve not only how well our students are performing individually, but how our school and district is performing as a whole. There is nothing more important to administrators and teachers than ensuring that students are ready for the next step in their academic career. We look forward to partnering with you.

February 23, 2023

Parents and Guardians: we will be practicing a “Safety Closure” drill on Wednesday, March 1st, at 10:30 a.m. using the A.L.I.C.E. protocols. Teachers will be working with their students in the coming week in anticipation of this drill.

In order to give our staff and students more options to protect themselves, KPBSD adopted the A.L.I.C.E. protocols to be used when the presence of a violent intruder necessitates a “Safety Closure.” A.L.I.C.E. is an acronym for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. These protocols are age appropriate, not sequential, or chronological, and those involved have the ability to change protocols as an incident develops.

I’ve attached KPBSD Emergency Guidelines for Parents and Guardians. Please review it so that you will know what to do if there is a school emergency situation.

ALICE drill notification 2023.doc

Sincerely,

Bob Ermold, Principal

Seward Elementary School

Hello! Seward Elementary & KPBSD want to remind you of the community meeting that will be held to discuss the characteristics that our staff, students, parents, and community are looking for in our new principal. The set date is February 22, 2023, at 5:00 PM.

Please see the community input survey link below. This survey will remain open for 3 days after it is opened. (It will be opened February 22, 2023 at 5:00 PM, and it will close February 25, 2023 @ 5:00 PM AKST; this is noted at the top of the form). The results will be compiled at district office.

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SewardEl_Prin_Input_23-24

Below is the link to join the Zoom Meeting that begins at 5:00 PM, February 22nd.

Meeting ID: 812 6779 4525

Passcode: 681339

Join by Skype for Business

Board of Education Finance Committee Meeting: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Read more here: https://kpbsd.org/board-of-education-finance-committee…/

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District requests input from staff, parents, and community members at the districtwide KPBSD budget meetings scheduled at the following times:

Seward Community – Wednesday, February 22, 2023 @ 6:00pm Seward High Library

Additional information and the number to call with questions will be posted here. As new budget information becomes available, it will also be posted here.

If you have questions, please call Natalie Bates at 907.714.8888.

We wanted to share some community flyers of upcoming Sports & Rec events happening in Seward!