We announced this morning at the Principals’ meeting that we will be funding $64,425 for district wide initiatives in the school year 2011-2012.

The Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation Small Hands to Big Plans Spring Fundraising luncheon raised in the neighborhood of $70,000! It’s great to be part of an all-volunteer board that is committed to supporting our school district by funding classroom grants, district wide initiatives and professional development.

This year’s SVSF Small Hands to Big Plans Spring Fundraising luncheon was extremely successful and it featured a terrific program.  We honored the Snoqualmie Educators of the Year – Sharon Piper,Chris Blake, and Kim Sales. Joel Aune spoke about our school district and the commitment to continuous improvement despite the current budget situation. We saw a really interesting presentation about using available technologies (GPS) in the classroom – demonstrating how by crossing disciplines we can teach real-life problem solving skills.  We also had a great keynote speaker, Dan Rasmus, author and Bellevue College Visiting Fellow.  He spoke about continuous learning and envisioning how people will learn and work in the future. We also heard from SVSF Board member Jonathan Pearlstein, who shared his commitment to our schools and his motivation to contribute.

We’ve heard back from our guests – both community members and educators – and they are saying that the program was inspiring!!

There was a groundswell of support from the business community. We had 80 corporate and business sponsors, 46 of these businesses are new sponsors. Next year we will contact corporate sponsors even sooner – so expect these numbers to go up!

We had around 250 attend the luncheon – it was a packed room.  We had over 200 donors.  And believe it or not we are still seeing donations come!! So the figure on how much we raised to support Snoqualmie Valley students keeps going up.