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July 13, 2018 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 7A PAINTING STORAGE AVAILABLE CANNON BEACH BUSINESS PARK 10’ x 10’ Heated Contact Holly at 503-436-2235 LAWN CARE Free Estimates • Storm Clean-Up JIM’S LAWN CARE BRENNA VISSER/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE 503-325-2445 Kindergartners from the Cannon Beach Academy get ready to take a photo with a flag giving Cannon Beach the destinc- tion of “Tree City USA” at old Cannon Beach Elementary School as a part of the 12 Days of Earth Day event. Academy kids make gains School’s first year shows numbers above national average By Brenna Visser Cannon Beach Gazette In its first full school year, new test results that measure student progress have come in for Cannon Beach Acad- emy significantly above the national average. Progress was measured with AIMSWebPlus, a na- tional reporting tool used by Seaside School District to measure growth in sub- ject staples like math and reading for kindergartners to eighth-graders. Twenty-sev- en students were graded with points upon completion of different skills. An average point count across the grade level was then used to mea- sure progress. In literacy, kindergartners improved by 40 points on CANNON BEACH ACADEMY The Cannon Beach Acade- my released its literacy and math test scores in its annu- al report. average compared with the national of 19 points from winter to spring. In math, 26 points of growth in compari- son to nine points across the country. First-graders gained 72 points on average in the same time period — 33 points above the national average — and in math improved by 32 points in comparison with the national average of 17 points. There was also growth list- ed for one student enrolled in second grade. Operating as a new school, executive director Amy Moore said she didn’t know what to expect, especially with the majority of incoming kindergartners placed in the lowest percentile for literacy. “In my 13 years of edu- cation, I’ve never really seen anything like this,” Moore said. “This is huge.” The scores show a mark of progress for a school that has been saddled with financial and logistical obstacles. Ear- ly denials of their charter by Seaside School District, low fund balances and difficulties securing a location left many in the community — includ- ing some members of the City Council — skeptical about the feasibility and longevity of the charter school. But these scores tell Moore they are doing something right. “As a first year adminis- trator, it just feels like all of our hard work has finally paid off,” she said. Moore attributes high test scores to the work of her teachers, small class sizes en- couraging more one-on-one attention and the curriculum, Direct Instruction. Lessons are designed so that only 10 percent of the material is new each time its taught, which in turn leads to students being able to practice skills more frequently and consistently. Small classes also allow teachers to identify students who need extra help sooner, Moore said. “There’s instant feed- back,” she said. “If your big- gest group is eight kids, you can see if the kid is making a mistake instead of getting lost in the crowd.” The academy will contin- ue to have to evolve as class sizes grows and the number of grades expand. But for now, she hopes the scores will show the community the academy is on the right track. “I hope it knocks their socks off,” Moore said. Seaside School District celebrates kickoff of construction project The $100 million school project underway By R.J. Marx Cannon Beach Gazette The school bus headed up the logging trails Monday, July 2, beyond Beerman Creek Road and onto the rocky and rutted hills to the Seaside School District’s new middle and high school campus. “I used to play out here when I was a child,” Steve Phillips, chairman of the school district’s board of direc- tors, said as excavators nudged and shuttled soil not far away. A state Department of En- vironmental Quality permit, received last week, triggered a site permit from the city for grading, excavation, utility work and erosion control, proj- ect manager Jim Henry said. The campus will bring stu- dents from three schools locat- ed in the tsunami inundation zone to the new location on 89 acres just southeast of Seaside Heights Elementary School. Gearhart Elementary School students will attend a renovated and expanded Sea- side Heights. A new two-story building will house middle and high school students. R.J. MARX Breaking ground at the new campus are school board members Sheila Roley, Hugh Stelson, Steve Phillips, Mark Truax, Doug Dougherty, Lori Lum, Michelle Wunderlich and Lynn Ulbricht. Superintendent Sheila Ro- ley directed groups of school board members, administra- tors, city staff and the con- struction team for the ground- breaking, what she described as a “soft opening,” with a more formal event planned for later in the year. A foundation package was submitted to the city for per- mit on Monday, he added. Construction manager Phil Broome of Hoffman Con- struction said stumps will be pulled and broken into pieces before being fed to a tub-grinder and used for land- scaping or taken away. About 30,000 yards of the chips will be used for erosion control, Henry added. The hillside will be exca- vated and dirt transported to a lower portion of the slope. “There’s almost a perfect bal- ance of cut-and-fill on this site,” Broome said. Teams are working from the top and working their way down, before moving and transferring the dirt into fill areas, about a three-month job. Any earth-moving before rains hit in October. Up the hill, visitors could hear the grinding of gears and the sounds of metal against rock and ground as excava- tors lifted and moved stumps and logs. To the west, officials con- templated the $100 million views, a panoramic swing along the distant hubbub of downtown and a sparkling Pacific. Teams of officials from the school district, city and construction team posed in hard-hats and vests as “gold” shovels hit the dirt. Former Superintendent Doug Dougherty was among those attending the event. Dougherty, who retired in 2016, is widely credited for helping to bring the project to fruition through decades of advocacy. “It’s amazing to finally see that the project is starting,” he said. 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