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Sunrise Elementary students and staff present leadership, mentorship and MTSS improvements
Summary
Sunrise Elementary staff and students presented the school's "growing together" theme, described a 48-student leadership group, a mentorship program, service projects (toy and food drives, ~350 cereal boxes donated) and MTSS-based literacy interventions that produced reading gains and reduced special-education referrals.
Sunrise Elementary staff and students showcased classroom and schoolwide work at the Enumclaw School Board's May 18 meeting, describing a year built around the theme "growing together," student leadership and targeted interventions to improve academic and social outcomes.
Morgan Tran, advisor for the Sunrise Leadership Group, said the club had 48 fourth- and fifth-graders who gave up free time to plan service projects and school events. "They gave up their free time. They gave up their lunch recess, to come together and figure out how we can help out Sunrise, how we can make Sunrise a better place," Tran said. The students described activities that included a toy drive, a community food drive and a cereal-box donation that produced roughly 350 boxes for a local food bank.
Melissa Petrowski, the school's resource teacher, described a structured mentorship program that paired student mentors with younger students for reading and recess support; she praised two mentors, Bodie and Carter, for consistent participation and leadership. The school also reported using two surveys (the HOPE survey and a psychological sense of school membership measure) to track student well-being; fall HOPE results showed about 68% of students reporting high hope, with a winter sense-of-belonging measure at 72%.
Sunrise staff described targeted MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support) work including fidelity checks, grade-level interventions and progress monitoring. School leaders said more efficient systems and increased instructional interventions reduced the number of students referred to special education this year and increased the rate at which students exited special education after receiving support.
The presentation included student testimony about the value of leadership and mentorship. "Leadership taught me [the] importance of helping others and working together," one student said. Board members praised the work and applauded the students. The presentation ended with the board thanking staff and students and moving on to the business portion of the meeting.
