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DAYNA’S DOSE: COVID-19: Kindness in a thousand little things
By Dayna Mason On TV and in social media we’ve seen grand gestures of generosity during this pandemic: restaurants preparing and donating meals for health care workers, companies converting their...
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PHOTOS: Signs celebrate our local 2020 high school graduates
Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, local 2020 high school graduates will probably forego the usual graduation exercise and big family celebrations, but that doesn’t mean they’re not being...
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Donation drive kicks off for 16 Highline Public Schools Student-Athlete...
“The show must go on” – the annual recognition event for student athletes in Highline Public Schools will get creative and go virtual on May 27, 2020, but the need for scholarship money is very real....
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State Board of Education, U.S. News spotlight 10 Highline Public Schools
Seven Highline Public Schools – including high schools, one middle school and two elementary schools – were spotlighted in state and national news this month. The Washington State Board of Education...
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Enjoy ‘Virtual Toddler Time’ with Burien’s Environmental Science Center every...
Enjoy ‘Virtual Toddler Time’ for FREE with Burien’s Environmental Science Center every Wednesday! The Environmental Science Center’s Kharli Rose is delivering her lively storytimes virtually to engage...
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Highline Schools Foundation awards scholarships to graduating seniors
The Highline Schools Foundation on Friday, May 1, 2020, announced the winners of its 2020 scholarships to graduating seniors. “We received 163 scholarship applications this year,” Anne Baunach,...
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Kitchen worker at Highline Public Schools tests positive for COVID-19
On Friday, May 2, 2020, Highline Public Schools announced that a kitchen worker tested positive for COVID-19. The district did not say which school or facility the staff member worked. Public Health –...
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VIDEO: Blog Columnist Cassidy Huff appears in John Krasinki’s ‘Some Good...
Longtime South King Media Columnist Cassidy Huff made a cameo appearance in John Krasinki’s “Some Good News” episode #6, during a segment about high school seniors graduating during the COVID-19...
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DAYNA’S DOSE: COVID-19: How to manage the anxiety and fear of the unknown
By Dayna Mason None of us knows for sure what the future holds for ourselves, our families, or our world, through and beyond this pandemic. Most of us, if not all, on some level and for different...
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DAYNA’S DOSE: Can belief in a “Higher Power” benefit you?
By Dayna Mason When we have a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, regardless of how we define that something—Universe, Higher Self, God, Nature, Spirit, etc.—research has shown that...
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DAYNA’S DOSE: ‘Radical consideration’ and your impact on the world
By Dayna Mason Sometimes we overestimate our impact on others. Sometimes we underestimate it. Sometimes we don’t estimate it at all. Our view of the world is from the perspective of “me” and we often...
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Will schools return to ‘normal’ in the fall? Highline Superintendent releases...
Many parents and students are wondering if or when our public schools will return to “normal” this fall, and on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, Highline Public Schools Superintendent Susan Enfield released an...
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Winners of Des Moines Dollars for Scholars awards announced
Fourteen local students will receive scholarship awards at the Des Moines Dollars for Scholars annual reception on May 27, 2020. Due to social distancing protocols, the reception will be a ‘drive...
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Delta Dental offers At-Home Learning with the Tooth Fairy
SPONSORED: At-Home Learning with the Tooth Fairy The world’s favorite essential worker has been hard at work creating a free virtual education program for families called The Tooth Fairy Experience. As...
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VIDEO: Time lapse shows progress on new Highline High School construction
Courtesy Highline Public Schools comes this cool time lapse video showing progress of the new Highline High School being built: “Construction progress is steady, thanks to diligent planning by Skanska...
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DAYNA’S DOSE: Hack the “flow”: What’s your superpower?
By Dayna Mason Each of us has a special talent—a “superpower”—something that we enjoy, that seems effortless and when we are fully immersed in it, we can lose all sense of time. Psychologists call this...
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Highline Public Schools will hold drive-through graduation parades this year
Due to public safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic, Highline Public Schools will be holding drive-through graduation parades for the Class of 2020 this year. “We wish we could give them a...
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St. Bernadette 8th Graders will celebrate Graduation this Thursday, June 4
Burien’s St. Bernadette School will honor achievements of 8th Graders with an outdoor, safely distanced celebration of learning and their matriculation to high school this Thursday, June 4, 2020, at 7...
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Highline School Board releases statement on police killing of George Floyd
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, the Highline School Board released the following statement on the police killing of George Floyd: A Message from the Highline Public Schools Board of Directors:...
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VIDEO: Time lapse of Highline High construction progress; tennis courts moved...
Despite the strict requirements of working during the COVID-19 pandemic, construction progress is continuing at the Highline High School site, thanks to construction workers. The new school is on track...
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