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Winter Lakes and Coquille Junior/Senior High spotlight student work and engagement
Summary
The Coquille School District board heard presentations from Winter Lakes Elementary and Coquille Junior/Senior High highlighting student projects, multilingual routines, career-connected learning and leadership activities that aim to boost student voice and family engagement.
Tommie Sinko, introduced by the board to present Winter Lakes Elementary, described campus routines, family events and classroom projects aimed at building student voice and community. "I am addressing you tonight as the principal of Winter Lakes Elementary, not the curriculum director," Sinko said, then walked board members through a newsletter, a morning gym routine convening at 8:21 a.m., and upcoming family events including a campus rock-painting activity on Oct. 17 and a family-friendly game and costume night on Oct. 29.
Sinko introduced staff supports and curricular activities, noting instructional assistant Angie Fano among staff and crediting Cheryl Johnson for website and newsletter help. She described a range of classroom activities — from a woolly-bear science unit to multilingual birthday surveys — and schoolwide efforts to involve families at open house.
Kim Gallagher described supports for the district's online students, including a Google Calendar scheduling link for one-on-one help and remote project presentations. Gallagher also summarized a restaurant partnership that allowed students to rotate through stations and obtain hands-on experience; the prior year 11 students took the food-handler course and 10 received state food-handler cards.
At Coquille Junior/Senior High, Albert Dixon introduced Miss Little and two students who showcased ELA classroom work. Miss Little described "First Chapter Friday" and short presentation projects designed to help students find their voice; seventh-grade student Abby said students used the slide tool Canva to create "all about me" slideshows. Eighth-grade student Miley described an integrated essay-and-collage assignment about a summer experience that teachers used to practice organization and creative expression.
Board members asked about planned Socratic seminars tied to the novel study; Miss Little said seminars occur in the spring and are part of her novel-study curriculum. The board did not take action on the spotlights; both presentations were informational.
The superintendent and board members praised the student work and the emphasis on leadership and engagement as the district continues fall programming.
