Family Newsletter
Cleveland STEM High School
May 31, 2024
Hello Cleveland families!
We are thrilled and full of gratitude to our PTSA for putting on the Red and White Auction this weekend. They have been working hard for months now to gather auction items and organize an event that celebrates the goodness of our school community. Thank you PTSA for your time and effort, and thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket, donated an auction item, and support our school community. We can't do this work without you, and we feel the impact of your support.
I also want to thank our seniors and their families. Our seniors will finish their last full week of school at Cleveland this week. I've only known our seniors for one school year, but I know they are going to be deeply missed. They started high school online, disconnected from the school culture and from one another, but you wouldn't know that by how much they've contributed to the vitality of our school community. Congratulations to our seniors and families - you're almost at the finish line! We're going to miss you.
Principal Jeff Lam
Assistant Principal Jacklyn Cable
Assistant Principal Laura Roesener
Admin Intern Jenn Kekuna
Admin Intern Trisha Pilapil
Important Dates and Events to Know
- 6/1 | PTSA Red and White Fundraiser
- 6/8 | Summer Festival
- 6/10 | Senior checkout
- 6/11 | Senior Breakfast and graduation rehearsal
- 6/14 | Senior Surprise Celebration
- 6/17 | Graduation, 8:00 pm
- 6/19 | NO SCHOOL (Juneteenth)
Important Info to Know
Laptop collection schedule
Please see the image below for our laptop collection schedule. 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students will return their devices on June 18th during their Humanities classes, and seniors will return their laptop on either June 7 or June 10th through their Humanities class. Any student who "misses" their laptop return day can check in their laptop to the library on June 18th.
12th grade families: please send in current and childhood pictures of your graduate!
Senior Suprise Celebration is on June 14th in the auditorium at 6pm.. Please send any current and childhood pictures of your seniors to Delyla (1dtsaeteun@seattleschools.org) or Ms. Pilapil (tbpilapil@seattleschools.org) by June 3rd.
Support the Cleveland PTSA fundraising event on June 1
Info for Seniors
6/10 | Last day of classes for seniors and senior checkout
6/11 | Senior breakfast and graduation rehearsal
6/17 | Graduation at Memorial Stadium, 8:00 pm
Our Family Co-Design Work
We have invested part of our Mental Health grant money into family and youth co-design work, and I'm thrilled to share with you that Mx. Jimenez and Ms. Keegan serve as our Family Co-Design leads. This work is done in collaboration with like-minded schools and supported by a facilitator from the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. You can learn more about the vision behind Family Co-Design work, here.
Learn more about their work:
Family Co-Design - Tymmony Keegan
I am delighted to share that in addition to piloting a Black Studies course here at Cleveland, I am now a member of Cleveland’s Co-Design Crew! In collaboration with SPS School & Family Partnerships staff, our levy liaisons with the City of Seattle’s Department of Education & Early Learning, and a brilliant facilitator with the Family Leadership Design Collaborative, we are beginning to take on the challenge of redefining relationships and partnerships between school and family. I’m really looking forward to supporting this critical work with Cleveland families and staff.
Youth Co-Design - isaura jiménez guerra
I’m excited to continue working on youth empowerment work through an AIS role focused on youth leadership and organizing. Through our work with co-design, my role is to support young people in identifying the issues that directly impact them so that they can organize and build collective power. I bring to this role my prior experience as a youth organizer and labor organizer and am excited to continue creating space where young folks can build connections and take action. I’m grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with young folks, community members, and our co-design crew.
What is Co-Design?
In short, in co-design, diverse stakeholders come together in order to collectively identify issues or problems of practice, and to design solutions. Co-design is an iterative process made up of cycles in which people:
- Build relationships & theorize around shared issues
- Design and develop tools, practices, processes, and other solutions that push beyond the status quo
- Enact or pilot these solutions and collect data on what happens
- Analyze & reflect on what was learned, in order to revise theories and designs
If you are interested in being a part of the Cleveland Co-Design Crew or just have questions, please reach out!
- Family Co-Design contact → Tymmony Keegan – tjkeegan@seattleschools.org
- Youth Co-Design contact → isaura jiménez guerra – isjimenez@seattleschools.org
Free Mental Health groups!
Are you interested in your child joining free and confidential groups this semester? Cleveland is offering several different groups which will take place on a rotating schedule during the school day starting in March. Filling out this referral form does not guarantee a spot in a group. The results of this survey are confidential and only read by a school counselor or social worker. Please fill out this interest form to see what group options are available.
Access for mental health services
Joon is a Seattle-based company that provides online therapeutic services for 13-24 year old clients. When students are signed up for services, they are matched with a therapist with expertise in their particular areas of need.
If this sounds like a service your student might benefit from, you can refer them right now, using this link. This service is free for Cleveland students and it is available through, at minimum, the end of this school year.