This story part of a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! “We are much better together.” That is Riverside School District’s Superintendent Dr. Ken Russell’s North Star philosophy—a motto that reflects his background as part of a twin set and a father […]
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This story part of a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! The Orchard Prairie School District has a two-building campus on a hilltop north of Millwood. Surrounded by farms and prairies, the original building was built in 1894 and remains the oldest
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This story part of a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! A proud graduate of Mead High School and the University of Idaho, Jeff Baerwald, superintendent of the Nine Mile Falls School District, has always enjoyed taking things apart and building them
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This story part of a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! Nobody expects a fire alarm to go off on a student’s first day at a new school, but that’s exactly what happened to then-elementary school principal Dr. Alexa Allman. And that
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This story part of a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! Ask Randy Russell, superintendent of Freeman School District, what moments stand out most from his career, and he’ll tell you it’s not about any award or accolade — it’s the quiet,
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This story is part of a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! Ben Ferney, superintendent of Cheney Public Schools, attributes his leadership skills to his father, whom he credits for serving as his first mentor. Ferney describes his father as having quiet
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This story is the first in a series highlighting local school superintendents as part of GSI’s IN Schools campaign. Watch each week for the next edition! It’s rare for a school district’s superintendent to also serve as a backup bus driver. But Kim Headrick, superintendent of Medical Lake School District, is exceptional. A proud graduate
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A rendering of the rebuilt Adams Elementary School, one of the proposed rebuilds included in the Together Spokane Initiative. The Greater Spokane Incorporated Board of Directors voted last week to endorse Together Spokane, a joint ballot measure proposed by Spokane Public Schools and Spokane Parks and Recreation. GSI Executive Director Alisha Benson says of GSI’s
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By Erin Vincent, VP Education & Talent, Greater Spokane Inc. Tables are utilitarian objects—flat surfaces with four legs—so common we might overlook their significance. Yet, for such a simple piece of furniture, tables often hold an outsized role in the moments that matter most. They’re where we gather to share meals, ideas, laughter, and sometimes
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I have spent my professional life pouring into the spaces that lift our region up. That often requires me to wear multiple hats, and that is how I come to you today, wearing the many hats that are important to me. I am a fierce advocate for public K-12 education. Having had three children attend
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