World Language & Leadership with OneWorld Now

Registration for OneWorld Now's 2020-2021 Afterschool Program is NOW OPEN! This year, OWN has 3 tracks to choose from: the World Language Track - where you can study Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, or Russian two days a week and earn high school credit; the Leadership Track - where you can develop your personal, societal, cultural, and global awareness and build skills to enact positive social change (credit option pending); or BOTH, which is called the Global Citizen Track. The deadline to register is September 27th, but all classes will be capped at 17 students and are first-come, first-served. 

Detailed info about the 2020-2021 After-school Program

Video (1:39 min) that outlines the program

Interest Form, for students who are interested

Registration Form - Deadline September 27th

Contact Caitlyn Lamdin: caitlyn@oneworldnow.org

Flipping the question of Why Now? in college admission...

 There's an insightful article in Forbes that provides some ideas about how seniors can re-contextualize those plans, internships, and participations that have been upended by the changes wrought by the COVID19 pandemic. It's worth a read!

Why Now in College Admission?

AP Test Registration

 Gibson Ek student who plan to take AP exams in the 2020-2021 school year must first register for those tests through Issaquah High School at this link:

https://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/issaquahhs/academics/assessment/ap-testing

Please note the following deadlines!

September 27th	Registered for College Board Class, Rosters will be checked by Teachers. (Does not apply for GEHS students)
October 4th	Registered for Total Registration and the amount of Exams Taken.
October 30th	Fully registered on both College Board and Total Registration. If not registered for this date, any registration after this point will incur a late fee.
November 15th	Must be Paid on Total Registration, otherwise exams will not be ordered.
March 11th	Last day to cancel or register late for AP Exams. There will be a $40 fee for this.

 

Coast to Coast College Tour

 

Admissions officers from Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and Vanderbilt University invite you and your students to learn about our institutions, hear advice about the college search and application process, and get your questions answered.

Meant as a brief introduction to the signature aspects of each institution, we'll spend the bulk of our time sharing application advice, financial aid insights, and answering questions submitted by students in advance.

We appreciate you sharing this opportunity with your students if at all possible. You and your colleagues are certainly welcome to attend. The Coast to Coast group is planning on holding a set of counselor events this fall.

WHEN

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

5pm Pacific Time

Webinar link sent upon registration.

An RSVP is required.

Can't make it that evening?

Visit the Coast to Coast Tour website for a full list of programs. 

Feeding Yourself: Meal Planning & Cooking Basics

My last post before leaving for Summer Break concerns the basics of how to feed yourself: meal planning and preparation. Cooking can be immensely rewarding, and at a minimum cooking for yourself will save you money, support healthy nutrition, and minimize your reliance on highly processed foods. Hot Pockets are fine once in a while, but it's no replacement for whole foods that you prepare yourself. Even if you're heading off to college and plan to live on campus with a meal plan, knowing a few go-to dishes will put you miles ahead when you decide to cook dinner for your date, bring something to a department potluck, or just break the monotony of dining hall pizza.

Food writer Michael Pollan has an excellent list of Food Rules that you would do well to internalize. It all boils down to this: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much.

Meal Planning and Prep
The Beginners Guide to Meal Planning
The Best Way to Use a Weekend for Meal Planning Success
10 Best Tips for Meal Planning for One
5 Things Expert Meal Planners Do Before Going to the Grocery Store

Cooking Basics
12 Cooking Basics Everyone Should Know
Gordon Ramsey: How To Master 5 Basic Cooking Skills -- knife skills! Stay out of the ER!
How To Cook For Beginners - The Essentials
https://watch.tastemade.com/adulting
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/cooking-for-yourself

What to cook?
Tools and techniques are great, but you still need to know what to cook. Leanne Brown's free 'Good & Cheap' cookbook is a great place to start. The recipes are delicious, the techniques are basic, and it's oriented around eating well on the cheap. Great for starting out!
Leanne Brown's Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 a Day

Want to take your cooking to the next level? Check out Stephane's 'French Cooking Academy' on YouTube. It's the complete Auguste Escoffier method of French cooking, from soup to nuts, and you can learn it all for free. Here is his Online Cooking Course for Beginners.

Food is the world on a plate: history, culture, language, travel... it's literally endless. If you just want to learn how to make tasty food for yourself and your friends, it's all that too. Dig in!

OSPI News Release: Find a Summer Meal Site Near You!

OLYMPIA — June 16, 2020 — The number of locations that students can receive free meals from has grown, thanks to new locations offering meals through the annual Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

SFSP provides children with nutritious meals during the summer. Sponsors may operate the program in areas where 50% or more of the children in the area are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.

Summer meal programs help children aged 18 and under get the nutrition they need to learn, play, and grow during the summer. This federally-funded program is sponsored by many organizations throughout our state, including schools, nonprofit organizations, local governments, tribes, and more.

SFSP is separate from meal programs operated by the school district during school closures, which may be continuing to providing meals over the summer. Contact your district for more information.

To find a Summer Meals site near you, please use a Summer Meals Locator: Text “food” or “comida” to 877–877, or you can also find summer meal sites online.

For more information, please contact the Child Nutrition Services department within the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction at 360–725–6200.

UW drops the SAT/ACT for admission PERMANENTLY

Big news today from the University of Washington. The UW will no longer require standardized test scores for freshman admissions beginning with the class of 2021, making permanent a change that was made due to the lack of testing sites because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The UW is dedicated to creating opportunities for the most promising students to learn and discover how they can make an impact,” UW President Ana Mari Cauce said. “Careful analysis and research showed that standardized testing did not add meaningfully to the prediction of student success that our holistic admission process already provides.”

You can read more here:
 UW removes standardized testing requirement for incoming students beyond fall 2021

Go Dawgs!