December 2023 Employee Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the December 2023 Excellence Awards!
Congratulations to the recipients of the December 2023 Excellence Awards!
Announcing two new elementary choice schools: VITA and RBG. Applications are being accepted.
This year, all second through fifth grade students will have an opportunity to visit this new school and learn more about the community they live in.
Thank you to our students, families and staff for your collaboration and contributions to a successful school year!
VPS has been testing for and lowering lead levels in school water since 2016 following Environmental Protection Agency standards. Now, the state of Washington has set a new standard.
Meet the newest members of Team VPS!
Learn about this month's recipients!
Work continues on school bond projects. Here's the latest on all of the projects to date.
Seven Vancouver schools are among 24 honored schools from Southwest Washington and 391 statewide.
Results showed no elevated lead levels.
Based on feedback, the meet will be moved to Tuesday, May 28. This date applies only to the eight schools affected by the postponed May 20 meet.
Guests will engage with staff and students, explore classrooms and programs and witness learning at Eisenhower and Hough elementary schools.
Families of students from 11 schools may be contacted.
This month's awardees include a secretary, paraeducator, teacher, occupational therapist and mental health specialist.
Superintendent Webb visits Hough Elementary in downtown Vancouver to speak with a few of the folks in the school’s Green Team and Garden Club.
Approximately 60 elementary and middle school students from Vancouver Public Schools made the cut for the National History Bee.
The 27th Annual Paddy Hough Parade rolled down Main Street Vancouver. See what makes this event a beloved community tradition! Reporter: Bailley Simms
Class-size reductions, playground improvements and turf field installations are among the upcoming projects.
One of the newest staff members at Hough Elementary is teaching kids how to be kind, develop empathy and show compassion.
Congratulations to Steve Vance, principal at Hough Elementary School, and Mick and Marlee Hawthorne, volunteers at Washington Elementary, who were honored with Real Heroes awards. The awards, given by the Land Here, Live Here, [...]
The organizations have collaborated to offer after-school soccer and basketball programs in both school districts.
Construction and repair projects for summer 2017 have been scheduled, with funding provided by the bond measure that local voters approved in February 2017.
Meet the four staff members who were selected by a committee of their peers to receive Employee Excellence Awards in January 2017.
A secure entrance, Family-Community Resource Center, air conditioning and more: Learn how Hough Elementary will benefit from a bond measure.
Attention, parents of fifth-graders who will attend Discovery Middle School next year! Discovery's fifth-grade parent night is Thursday, June 2, at 6 p.m.
Jane Tesner Kleiner, a landscape architect, parent of a Hough student and founder of the school’s Green Team, received the 2016 Washington Association of School Administrators' Community Leadership Award for the Columbia River region.
Four employees were selected for the March 2016 recognition. They were honored at the March 22 school board meeting.
VPS’ elementary schools have partnered with the district’s communications office to embark on a redesign of all elementary school websites.
Vancouver Public Schools is one of eight Future Ready districts featured in a set of professional learning resources recently released by the U.S. Department of Education.
In April, 150 education leaders from across the nation converged in Vancouver to learn about the district’s weLearn 1:1 technology initiative. The conference, hosted by the nonprofit Digital Promise’s elite League of Innovative Schools, [...]
Discovery Middle School teacher Patrick Mahaney is interviewed for the U.S. Department of Education video project. "I am writing to inform you that the U.S. Department of Education selected your district to [...]
Vancouver Public Schools has announced several administrative changes for the 2015-16 school year. Personnel assignments are subject to final approval by the school board. At the district administrative office, Travis Campbell has been hired as [...]
Four employees were selected for the April 2015 recognition. They were honored at the April 28 school board meeting. Pictured from left to right are: Patty Kellum, secretary, Sarah J. Anderson Elementary School Erik Smith, teacher, Hough and [...]
Eisenhower, Harney and Hough elementary schools, as well as Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, were among the more than 400 schools statewide that earned Washington Achievement Awards for 2014. The recipients are among the [...]
Original source: The Columbian, March 22, 2015 Tablets, communication apps are able to give nonverbal children a voice Standing in his living room, Bryce Smith told his son, Dylan: "Use your words. Tell me what [...]
Four employees were selected for the November 2013 recognition. They were honored at the Nov. 26 school board meeting. Pictured left to right are: • Scott Counard, bus driver, transportation • Eva Unger, principal, Hough [...]