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OUR 111th YEAR • December 8, 2017
School district may undertake new strategic plan
goals and benchmarks for future
leaders.
Board of directors seek to define district goals, mission
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
The Seaside School District is
looking to the future with a new cam-
pus in the Southeast Hills. The reloca-
tion and building process could be ac-
companied by a general statement of
mission and goals, as members of the
district’s board of directors are con-
sidering embarking on a nine-month
strategic vision process with the help
of Jerome Colonna of Colonna Strate-
gic Planning Services, based in Bend.
“This conversation today isn’t
about the building,” Superintendent
Sheila Roley said Tuesday afternoon
in a special meeting with school
board members and Colonna. “It’s
about the kids and the learning and
how we come together as a cohesive
K-12 school, and making sure with
our awesome staff we maximize the
best outcomes for our kids.”
Colonna, who brings more than
45 years experience in Oregon edu-
cation, is the former superintendent
of Beaverton and Redmond schools.
He served on the board of the Ore-
gon Department of Education until
last year.
“This is your first chance to talk
about to see this district moving
to the next level of effectiveness,”
Colonna said. “You’re a very good
district, but maybe you can be bet-
ter. What are some of the things you
can strive for? In knowing what to
strive for, I can give you the tools
to get there.”
Colonna shared his proposal
for strategic planning, districtwide
Priorities
With a new campus ahead after
the approval of a $99.7 million bond
last November, the time is “now” for
a strategic planning process, mem-
bers felt, as building and relocation
will likely dominate discussions in
years to come.
He asked board members to dis-
cuss priorities from three to five
years off.
Board members sought improve-
ment in graduation rates, a reduction
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People attending the Festival of Trees make their way around the room Saturday at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
Hospital foundation gala
supports emergency
services, innovation
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
I
nnovation was the focus of the 20th
annual Safeway Providence Festival
of Trees at the Seaside Civic and
Convention Center.
With a goal of raising $175,000,
donors at silent and live auctions tallied al-
most $196,000.
The money will support programs at
Providence Seaside Hospital.
“Our focus for tonight is to celebrate
the last 20 years and look to the future and
the need to grow and expand our services,”
said Kimberly Ward, executive director of
the hospital’s foundation. “This fund will
allow us to focus on greater, more strategic
projects. The first priority will be to help
patients who use our emergency services.”
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Children and dogs were among the stars.
in absenteeism, among other mea-
surable goals.
“One of my priorities for the fu-
ture is that when we transition to our
new campus, we will be such a co-
hesive, collaborative class,” Roley
said.
Roley sought to define that cul-
ture and the expectations of students
and how they learn “so that we are
really a K-12 team instead of a K-5
team.”
Board member Michelle Wun-
derlich pointed to the difficulties of
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Designing
schools for
the Big One
Dougherty co-authors
resiliency paper
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
A local leader will address industry and
science experts at a major national event.
Seaside’s Doug Dougherty will be among
the presenters at the Eleventh U.S. National
Conference on Earthquake Engineering: In-
tegrating Science, Engineering and Policy,
June 25-29, in Los Angeles.
The former Seaside School District su-
perintendent led the effort to raise aware-
ness of the district’s at-risk schools in the
event of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earth-
quake and tsunami. Dougherty and others
developed and promoted a 2016 measure
successfully raising $99.7 million for new
school’s outside of the tsunami zone.
Dougherty achieved national attention
in the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker
piece “The Really Big One,” by Kathryn
Schulz. He was also extensively profiled in
Bonnie Henderson’s “The Next Tsunami,”
which chronicles his efforts to build safer
schools.
Dougherty, who retired from the dis-
trict in 2016, is a state commission-
er Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Ad-
visory Commission and working on
Senate Bill 850 team to develop the
Mass Care and Shelter plan for Oregon.
Dougherty co-authored “Oregon Schools
Face ‘The Really Big One: Advancing
School-Centered Community Resilience,”
with researchers Yumei Wang and Ted Wolf.
Wang is a civil/geo-hazards engineer
at the Oregon Department of Geology and
Mineral Industries. Wolf is a writer and ad-
vocate with interests in sustainability, natu-
ral history, and earthquake safety.
The report comes after 25 years of state
investments to make schools safer. More
than $310 million has been spent toward
retrofits of K-12 buildings, completing
projects in more than 80 school districts
since 2009.
The report presents case studies from
three statewide perspectives: Portland’s
aging buildings; adopting resilient design
in Beaverton; and facing tsunami risk in
Seaside.
Oregon has begun to consider a broader
goal of “community resilience,” the authors
state.
One of the goals of the Seaside school
bond, Dougherty said in a 2016 interview,
was to use the a new campus facility to act
as an emergency shelter.
The new buildings will be built to safely
withstand a 9.0 earthquake, he said.
Grown-ups, kids, get down to business at Artisan Fair
Creators of all ages
celebrate the holiday
season in Seaside
By Brenna Visser
Seaside Signal
More than 80 vendors filled every
nook and cranny of the Seaside Con-
vention Center in late November with
tables filled Christmas-themed arts,
crafts and baked goods.
Crafters and artists of all ages
came to participate in the 49th Seaside
Artisan Gift Fair, including Konrad
and Roarke Struve, who started their
homemade playdough business at the
ripe old age of 5.
Dressed in bowler hats and fitted
suit jackets, the only thing that set the
two 7-year-old brothers apart from
their older counterparts was their short-
er stature. Approach them, and like any
other vendor they will tell you their
passion behind their creations – and tell
you why you should buy it. For Konrad
and Roarke, that product is homemade
playdough in a variety of colors.
“It’s fun, and it’s something people
want to buy,” Konrad said.
“Grownups can even use it, too
— to exercise your hands,” added
Roarke.
The Struves got their spot at the
gift fair through the Biz Kids, a 4-H
program that gives kids the tools to
pursue entrepreneurship and teach-
es kids the basics of small business.
Event manager Cyndi Mudge with the
Seaside Chamber said each year usu-
ally at least a few children from the
program operate booths.
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Roarke and Konrad Struve demonstrate their play dough product during the
2017 Seaside Artisan Gift Fair.