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  • Bend’s Desert Sky Montessori receives $5,000 OnPoint Credit Union Community Builder Award

    Posted on May 18, 2022 By Backyard Bend in category Positive Newstaggedbend , Community , Montessori , On Point Community Credit Union , Positive News , Schools

    Desert Sky Montessori has received On Point Community Credit Union’s Community Builder Award. Learn more here.

    PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As the 13th annual OnPoint Prize for Excellence in Education campaign continues, OnPoint Community Credit Union announced Tuesday the five schools. including Bend’s Desert Sky Montessori, that have won this year’s Community Builder awards. The winning schools will receive up to $5,000 for a special project that positively impacts their school and community.

    OnPoint also announced today the six finalists for the Educator of the Year awards. Three winning teachers (one representing grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12) will have their mortgage or rent paid for one full year and receive $2,500 for each of their schools. The three runners up (one…

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  • Oregon assistant principal named nation’s best for 2022

    Posted on April 13, 2022 By Backyard Bend in category Positive NewstaggedOregon , Positive News , Schools , Teachers
    An Oregon assistant principal is national assistant principal of the year. Discover more here. By Betsy Hammond | The Oregonian/OregonLive

    Katherine Holden, assistant principal of Ashland Middle School, has been named the national assistant principal of the year in recognition of how she helped creatively and cheerfully guide her school through the aftermath of 2020′s home-destroying wildfires.

    Holden said in a statement that she considers it “my mission to do everything I can to create a school environment where students feel safe and staff feel supported so they can be their best and have fun teaching and learning.”

    “As…

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  • Dr. Robin Holmes-Sullivan to become first woman, Black president at Lewis & Clark College

    Posted on February 09, 2022 By Backyard Bend in category Positive NewstaggedEducation , Positive News , Schools
    Dr. Robin Holmes-Sullivan at Lewis & Clark College is making history. Find out more about her here. By The Associated Press

    PORTLAND — Dr. Robin Holmes-Sullivan will be the first woman and first Black person to become president of Lewis & Clark College in the school’s 155-year history.

    She will step into the role in July after president Wim Wiewel retires, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

    Holmes-Sullivan is currently vice president for student life and dean of students at Lewis & Clark, a private liberal arts college in Portland.

    “It’s obviously something that is going to be, and is, very meaningful…

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