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KPBSD inspiration: Meghan Mullaly, Seward High School #ClassOf2019

Published on July 19, 2019 By Pegge Erkeneff

Seward High School Meghan Mullaly, Class of 2019 A four-year member of both the swim and soccer teams, Ms. Meghan Mullaly also represented her class and school in student council. She won significant recognition and awards in every juried art show in which she contributed, supports her school and classmates through all of her volunteerism […]

KPBSD Inspiration, Annaleah Karron, Seward High School #ClassOf2003

Published on May 15, 2019 By Pegge Erkeneff

KPBSD Inspiration, Annaleah Karron, Seward High School, Class of 2003 Annaleah Karron teaches 7th to 12th grade social studies at River City Academy, a KPBSD performance based school in Soldotna, Alaska, and in her spare time runs a fun, small business teaching Paint & Sip art classes in the community called “Easy As D.I.Y – […]

Celebrate Martha Fleming, Kenai 2019 BP Educational Ally

Published on May 2, 2019 By Pegge Erkeneff

Celebrate Martha Fleming, Kenai 2019 BP Educational Ally It’s the job of the high school guidance counselor to assess each student’s entire academic life and get to know his or her strengths, struggles, social life, home life, and, perhaps most important, his or her potential. Martha Fleming, from Seward High School, is the 2019 BP […]

Graduate Inspiration: Carlyn Nichols, Seward High School #ClassOf1997

Published on March 27, 2019 By Pegge Erkeneff

Carlyn (Walker) Nichols, a Science, Culinary, and Maker educator at Seward Middle School, a 2018 Kenai BP Teacher of Excellence, and 1997 Seward High graduate said, “I believe our young people need to struggle together to solve problems, explore new ideas, create content, and engage with their communities locally as well as beyond. If we […]

KPBSD Inspiration, Kristin (Beck) Bates, Seward High School #ClassOf2004

Published on December 12, 2018 By Pegge Erkeneff

“A combination of opportunities I had while attending Seward schools sent me into a salmon spiral,” said Kristin Beck Bates, a Seward High graduate who attended Nikiski Elementary, K-Beach Elementary, Seward Elementary, Seward Middle School, and graduated in 2004. KPBSD Inspiration, Kristin (Beck) Bates, Seward High School #ClassOf2004 Kristin, now the hatchery manager at Trail […]

Celebrate STEM leader, student Riley von Borstel

Published on September 4, 2018 By Pegge Erkeneff

KPBSD celebrates #STEM leader Riley von Borstel, Seward High School, Alaska, who participated in the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders in Lowell, MA, June 29 – July 1, 2018. Winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics, and Science Director of the National Academy of Future Scientists and Technologists, Dr. John C. Mather nominated Riley […]

Heleana Backus, Seward High School #ClassOf2018

Published on July 3, 2018 By Pegge Erkeneff

Heleana Backus Seward High School, Class of 2018 Heleana Backus was a member of the Seward High School Debate, Drama, and Forensics Team, Student Council, and the National Honor Society. However, she wrote that, “The most pivotal points in my development as a thinker and human being have happened in the English classroom.” It was […]

Seward student Heleana Backus awarded Golden Apple

Published on May 7, 2018 By Pegge Erkeneff

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Golden Apple Award | May 7, 2018  Miss Heleana Backus Heleana Backus is a senior at Seward High School and she has been an integral part of the 2017-2018 ELA curriculum revision process. Her work on the committee is helping to ensure the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District moves toward […]

Seahawk Day of Caring is a win-win!

Published on May 7, 2018 By Pegge Erkeneff

The First Annual Seahawk Day of Caring was a huge success! Spring sports athletes completed several community projects including Spring Cleaning at the Cemetery City Campgrounds.  They swept gravel for several local churches and for the Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department. Local businesses pledged their financial support to these projects, and the teams raised more […]

Personalized Learning: facilitate plus solid trusting relationships

Published on July 20, 2017 By Pegge Erkeneff

Mrs. Stephanie Cronin, Seward High School Educator of all levels of high school mathematics and Principles of Engineering My role in the classroom is as a facilitator of learning. This role has changed throughout my twenty years as a teacher. From the days of overheads, and sage on the stage in which the teacher passes […]