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A7 • Friday, April 19, 2019 | Cannon Beach Gazette | CannonBeachGazette.com When board games are part of the curriculum By KATHERINE LACAZE For Cannon Beach Gazette For kindergarten stu- dents at Seaside Heights Elementary School, home- work each week is pro- foundly simple: Playing a board game with their family. Each kindergarten class has enough board games so they can be rotated among the students on a weekly basis as part of game bags, which also include proce- dure sheets, game instruc- tions, and a refl ection sheet where the students can pro- vide feedback. The practice, which was introduced this year, meshes with the school’s goal of approaching each child as “a person fi rst, and a student second,” Principal Julie Wozniak told the district’s board of directors during a presentation at their meet- ing March 19. To introduce board games as a learning tool and age-appropriate home- work, the school held a fam- ily game night in January. About 80 people, or 23 fam- ilies, attended. “It was a rousing suc- cess,” kindergarten teacher Jocelyn Milliren told the board. The program was ini- tially sponsored by North- west Parenting, and the school has since received other funding to ensure the kindergarten classes at the Heights have enough board games for each stu- dent to take home a differ- ent one each week. All the board games are age-appro- priate and culturally respon- sive, with instructions in both Spanish and English so they’re accessible to the diverse families served by the school district. The benefi ts for the kin- dergarteners, the teachers believe, are numerous: sup- porting social-emotional learning, teaching students to express and manage SEASIDE SCHOOL BOARD Meet the candidates on Tuesday, April 30 Cannon Beach Gazette Katherine Lacaze/Cannon Beach Gazette During a Seaside School Board meeting March 19, The Heights Elementary School kindergarten teachers talk about how using board games as homework for their students helps engage families, teach age-appropriate skills, and bolster social-emotional learning. their emotions, encourag- ple hobby and can benefi t they aren’t bound to a cer- ing them to engage in coop- classrooms and society as a tain date, but the properties erative play, and introduc- whole. become surplus when “we ing them to the concept of cease to occupy them.” In other news: friendly competition. Board • The elementary schools’ • The board approved to parent teacher organiza- games also teach the stu- dents about following rules, designate Gearhart Elemen- tions hosted a Bollywood taking care of materials, tary School, Broadway Mid- dance night at Seaside and maintain- High School ing focus on a on April 5 “WE’VE NEVER HAD PARENTS task. at Seaside Addition- High School. COME TO US AND SAY, ally, the pro- Prashant ‘WE LOVE YOUR HOMEWORK gram encour- K a k a d , ages family founder of SO MUCH, WE’RE BUYING engagement, the Port- and the stu- land-based IT FOR CHRISTMAS.’ ” dents have company, and Kindergarten teacher Betsy Mahoney responded dancers Brit- positively. tany Newton “ We ’ v e — who hails never had parents come to dle School and Seaside High from Seaside — and Elliot us and say, ‘We love your School and their associated Miller spent hours teaching homework so much, we’re properties as “surplus” as of more than 1,000 students in buying it for Christmas,’” fall 2020, when they are no kindergarten through eighth kindergarten teacher Betsy longer in use. Superinten- grade a dance routine. The dent Sheila Roley said once students then demonstrated Mahoney said. The program was district properties become their routines during a com- recently featured by The surplus, staff is authorized munity Bollywood Dance Tabletop Game Talk pod- to dispose of them — or in Night, put on at Seaside cast as an example of how this case, work with a Real- High School the evening of gaming transcends a sim- tor to sell them. Roley said April 5. Cannon Beach, Seaside and Gearhart residents will get a chance to hear what this year’s school board candidates have to say about the Seaside School Dis- trict’s key issues. They’ll be attending a forum on Tues- day, April 30, at the Broad- way Middle School Library in Seaside. District Superinten- dent Sheila Roley shared the importance of the role school board members serve. “We would really like our great community to have the opportunity to see the candidates and hear from them, their perspec- tives on how to lead our schools.” The American Associa- tion of University Women has always been involved with education, Seaside president Cindy Gould said. “If we have a strong educa- tion system, then we have a strong community,” Gould said. Board members make the community even stron- ger, she said. “Part of our mission is women and girls, but edu- cation is our biggest thrust,” the association’s Karen Beck added. “It’s part of our mission statement.” The event is organized by the Seaside Signal and the Seaside American Association of University Women, and will be intro- duced by Cindy Gould. Roley will offer remarks, along with members of the high school’s Associated Student Body. Signal editor R.J. Marx will moderate. Two of three open seats will see competitive races in the May 21 election. Three candidates — John Dunzer, Sondra Gomez and Jeremy Mills — have fi led for the Zone 5, Position 1 seat. Seaside’s John Dunzer, a retired corporate execu- tive, is now employed as a greeter at Walmart. Jeremy Mills, a Seaside resident, has 11 years as an agent with State Farm Insurance. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Sunset Empire Park and Recre- ation District. Sondra Gomez is a local operations manager at Vacasa and served in the consulting offi ce at the Sea- side School District from 2016-18. Shannon Swedenborg is the sole candidate in Can- non Beach’s Zone 1, Posi- tion 1. Swedenborg fi lled the board seat after Pat- rick Nofi eld stepped down in Cannon Beach. Over the past two years she has been a substitute teacher at the Heights Elemen- tary School and Broad- way Middle School. She taught high school biology in the Renton, Washington, School District for 10 years. Also in an uncontested race, Mark Truax, president of the board and holding 20 years experience with the school district, is run- ning for Zone 4, Position 2, based in Seaside. He is a Seaside High School grad- uate and Astoria fi refi ghter. Gould said she hoped to hear ways in which board members could help meet the needs of underfunded schools and to value educa- tion locally. “What I’m hoping for are candidates and board members, as we’ve always been fortunate to have, who are very focused on the best interests of all of our kids,” Roley added. 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