Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 News Release SB207 and SB209 could increase KPBSD deficit Soldotna, April 1, 2016—The Senate Finance Committee introduced four education related bills which potentially affect KPBSD revenue and expenditures. SB 207 – Teacher Retirement Employer Contributions, and SB 209 – PERS Employer Contributions, both increase the percentage […]
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has suspended the AMP assessment in our schools until we receive further information from the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (EED). The decision was made in the afternoon, on March 31, 2016. This EED press release provides further information, and KPBSD will communicate with our staff, students, and […]
Repost from http://kpboem.blogspot.com/ March 29, 2016 Multiple Agencies to Conduct Training Exercises in Soldotna Alaska This week emergency response exercises will be conducted in Soldotna, AK on Thursday March 31st and Friday April 01st. These exercises are part of the statewide Alaska Shield 2016 exercise. On these days, you may see uniformed first responders or Alaska Army […]
Skyview Middle School robotics classes spent the third quarter learning about the properties of buoyancy, design and construction, then created life size duct tape boats, and took to the pool for boat races! “STEM Education ROCKS!” — Shelli Church. educator, Skyview Middle School Tweet This Post
Many educators think of February as Love of Reading Month, so it is especially fitting that Battle of the Books takes place during that month. Sixty-five KPBSD teams participated in this year’s district competition. All did an awesome job. Most of the battles took place using audio conference technology with the final round teams competing […]
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 News Release Pre-Kindergarten class information for August 2016 Soldotna, March 23, 2016—Children who will be four years old by September 1, 2016, have an opportunity to attend pre-kindergarten classes at their local area school in the fall. To qualify for the classes, parents and guardians must […]
McNeil Canyon Elementary celebrated Love of Reading month in February. Instead of celebrating once on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, students and staff celebrated the entire month. Instead of counting total minutes read, students spent their time sharing, talking, and writing about books they enjoy. Each week McNeil had a school-wide activity which involved cross grade activities […]
What does Hope have to do with owls, bugs, and superheroes? Well, these topics meant money in the bank for some students at Hope School. This year, students in Hope tried their hand at a new venture by competing in the state Ididacontest sponsored by the Alaska Society for Technology in Education, an organization […]
Unassumingly, everyday, KPBSD staff goes the extra mile for their students, and often we never hear about it. This #GoldenMoment took place before school started, one winter day in Soldotna, Alaska. Before school hours, Malikhi Hansen, a Soldotna High School vision impaired student, made a visit to Redoubt Elementary, a neighboring school. With Granger Nyboer, KPBSD […]
Every spring, Kenai Alternative School students in Wade Marcuson’s Physical Science class have the opportunity to race their cars as fast as they can. These aren’t just any car mind you. These are the CO2 cars that the students designed and built themselves. After covering the concepts of gas expansion, inertia, mass, force, and friction, […]