The District recently heard from Swedish Hospital in Issaquah and Providence Marianwood asking for donations of any available protective equipment, including masks, gowns, gloves, and goggles. These items are crucial to protect healthcare workers who care for patients suffering from COVID-19, and supplies are running low.
ISD staff members gathered supplies from schools across the district that would have been used for student health and science classes, as well as supplies from school health rooms. On March 25, staff members from Swedish and Providence picked up the donations and took them to their care facilities to be put to use by the people on the front lines of dealing with the pandemic.
Thank you to all healthcare workers!
Issaquah School District Superintendent Ron Thiele speaks about what the District has done and is doing during the extended school closure due to COVID-19. For info about supports available, visit www.issaquah.wednet.edu/family/supports.
For the final day of Classified School Employees Week, meet the kitchen staff of Sunny Hills Elementary School: Donna Magnuson, Melanie Troutman, and Monica Pak. They recently played a big role in developing several scratch-made recipes that will be served at their school and other schools in the district. Like all of our district’s nutrition staff, they make sure students aren’t hungry so they can focus on learning.
Donna has worked at Sunny Hills for 21 years, Melanie has worked in the district for nine years, and Monica is in her first year. Donna and Melanie both attended Sunny Hills themselves when they were kids!
“We work as a team to solve problems and make the kitchen run easier,” Donna says.
It’s Classified School Employees Week, and we’re recognizing a classified employee or group of employees each day. These are the people who do the work to keep our schools running so students can focus on learning.
Today, meet landscape technician Dani Tronsen, who works at Sunset Elementary, Cougar Ridge Elementary and Pine Lake Middle School. She studied horticulture in college and ran a landscaping business before joining the district about a year ago.
“It’s nice to use my knowledge and expertise to make people proud of where their kids go to school,” Dani says. “If we can keep the school looking nice people want to be a part of it. And a lot of our work isn’t just making it look nice, but it’s also about safety.”
Dani often interacts with students who are curious about her work and uses it as an opportunity to teach them about plants, storm water, insects and other important topics.
Thank you to all our classified staff! It takes a lot of time, work and dedication to keep our schools running, and it couldn’t happen without you.
It’s Classified School Employees Week, and we’re recognizing a classified employee or group of employees each day this week. These are the employees who do the work to keeps our schools running so that students can focus on learning.
Today, meet custodian Susana Santiago. She’s worked for the Issaquah School District the past three years, and has worked mainly at Newcastle Elementary for the past seven months. She enjoys her interactions with other staff members and the feeling of creating a clean environment for students to learn.
“It’s very important because the next day the teachers and the students show up, and they come back with the school being clean,” she says.