Category SCHOOLS
After students wait outside in smoky air, South Salem making changes to back-to-school event
The South Salem High School office in Sept. 1, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) When Alex Goldberg showed up at South Salem High School Monday to get a new Chromebook for her daughter, she found a line of students waiting outside in smoky air. It was…
Salem-Keizer delays start of school to Sept. 17 in response to wildfires
First grade teacher Jenna Miller hands a math workbook to Nikolas Buczynski at Kalapuya Elementary School on Thursday, September 3. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) All Salem-Keizer School District students will start classes next Thursday, Sept. 17 after multiple schools had to cancel events preparing for the…
PHOTOS: Kalapuya students reconnect with lost jackets, spring artwork at drive-though event
Piper Miller, 6, picks up school materials during a drive-in event at Kalapuya Elementary on Thursday, September 3. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem schools are getting ready for an online start to school with drive-by events where students can return library books, pick up needed supplies,…
“It’s not pretty”: Salem high schools scramble to finish student schedules in a world with fewer options
Shari Dixon, student data specialist at McKay High School, works through the intricacies of class scheduling at her desk on Thursday, September 3. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Sam Mendez says building a high school schedule is like a game of Jenga: you move one block and…
Salem kindergarteners meet teachers face-to-face in preparation for online school
Incoming kindergartner Emory Truehitt stops by Kalapuya Elementary school to pick up materials for online classes on Thursday, September 3. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Emory Truehitt grinned, revealing a mouth of mostly missing front teeth, as he flipped through his math workbook. The kindergartener was sitting…
With two weeks until Salem-Keizer schools start, teachers head back to class
Annie DePiero inspects the library in her new classroom at South Salem High School on Sept. 1, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) When teacher Annie DePiero walked into her classroom this week, she said it felt “like a time capsule.” She hadn’t set foot in South…
PHOTOS: South Salem High School teachers begin setting up classrooms for remote teaching
Student teacher Rachel Nelson, left, shares a laugh with South Salem High School teacher Joy Anna Forsythe as they clean their classroom on Sept. 1, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Classes don’t start until Sept. 15, but South Salem High School teachers got a chance Tuesday…
New report shows Oregon taking conservative path to classrooms
An empty classroom at Stevens Middle School on Aug. 18, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] About 2% of school employees and 1% of students would become infected…
Despite pandemic, McKay educators work one on one to help students graduate
McKay High School senior Joseph Jacobsen works with assistant principal Aaron Johnson and science teacher Lori Hunt on August 18, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Lori Hunt glanced from her phone to a spiral-bound notebook on the desk in front of her. “I just got hung…