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LENi Community’s Choice Award Winner is…Eastside Pathways!!!
Eastside Pathways was honored to receive the Community’s Choice Award at the 2nd annual Leadership Eastside Network Award (LENi) Gala held October 12. The Community’s Choice Award was selected by Gala attendees texting their vote during the event. This...
Moving from Proving to Improving
At the end of September, Susan [Sullivan] and I flew to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to attend the Strive Network 2012 Cradle to Career Network convening. We hadn’t realized when we scheduled the trip that our visit would follow only five days after Seattle’s controversial...
Microsoft Alumni Foundation Award
It’s not about success, it’s about significance. That is how one Microsoft alumnae described his efforts to make the world a better place. Earlier this month on October 1, about 600 former Microsoft employees gathered on the Microsoft campus for the Microsoft Alumni...
Eastside Pathways’ Strategic Initiatives
Enable every child in Bellevue to achieve a productive, fulfilling life. This is the bold vision of Eastside Pathways. Visions are meant to be a stretch, right? This is definitely a stretch, but we strongly believe it’s a real possibility. This is the bold vision of...
National Challenge for Grade Level Reading: Overview & Update
On Friday, September 14, 2012, the partners in the Eastside Pathways Grade-Level Reading Campaign kicked off their fall planning cycle with a presentation by Ralph Smith, Managing Director of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading & Executive Vice President, Annie...
Eastside Pathways Welcomes Superintendent Tim Mills!
“…Eastside Pathways will have our school district’s support and we’ll be together shoulder to shoulder to make this happen for children. Because really that is what matters, there is nothing, there is nothing more important to any community than educating its...
Introducing Stephanie Cherrington: Eastside Pathway’s New Operations Manager
One of the key elements of the Collective Impact approach is the idea of a strong backbone organization, one that is accountable for supporting the shared vision, metrics, collaboration, and communications that make collective efforts possible. Thus far, Eastside...
Eastside Pathways at the Strawberry Festival
The Eastside Pathways community launch at the June 23-24 Bellevue Strawberry Festival was a success! Over 400 children, youth and families participated in the scavenger hunt activity visiting the four areas of the EP booth (EP/Community Engagement, Early Learning,...
Bellevue School District’s Big Picture School Takes a Different Approach
Last fall, Bellevue School District opened a school with a new format – The Big Picture School. It is a model that is followed in over 100 schools in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Israel, and the Netherlands. The approach was first applied in 1995 and is based on three...