"A team is a mosaic."
- Charles Williams

What an exciting adventure - sharing leadership at Bryant. I bring my enthusiasm, experience and energy to the Bryant school community.

I have experience as a principal and educator at the elementary, K-8 and high school levels. I have experience as a counselor and organizational consultant. I love the role as principal because it allows me to actively shape school practice by learning with and supporting skilled staff through shared instructional leadership. As principal I contribute to children’s excitement about and engagement in learning. What a great job!

The strengths of an organization lie in collaborative, focused implementation of shared beliefs, vision and goals. Student learning is everyone’s responsibility and I value all roles in the education process. Shared leadership and authentic collaboration allows everyone’s strengths to shape the school’s success.

Bryant Bucks is a wonderful fundraising opportunity for our school! Do you buy food? Clothes? Books? Music? Gifts? Then you should be buying scrip! It’s a great fundraiser for our school and you don’t have to spend a penny more than what you would normally spend! Bryant receives a discount from the stores while you receive the full value of your purchase. It is truly like free money for Bryant, all at no cost to you when you shop for items you already buy.

• How can you buy Bryant Bucks (aka scrip)?
  Bryant Bucks can be purchased with cash or check at the Scrip table located outside the office or on the playground on nice days.

  You may also order Bryant Bucks [download form] to have your scrip cards delivered through kid mail.

• What are "Bryant Bucks"?
  Bryant Bucks are scrip, which essentially means "same as cash." You buy gift cards at Bryant and then use it like cash at stores such as:
   
  
  • QFC / Fred Meyer
  • Metropolitan Market
  • PCC -- card or keychain fob you can recharge (simultaneously earning those credit card points) at any PCC store.
  • Safeway
    Also: Register your Safeway Club Card number online and money will automatically to go Bryant with every use.
  • Starbucks, Tully's, Jamba Juice
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Baskin Robbins
  • L.L. Bean, Eddie Bauer, The Gap
    
  • ... and many others.

Chess Anyone? Bryant Chess Club is a large active club open to all students (kindergarten on up) of all skill levels to meet, play and learn more about chess.

The club meets on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, October 7th to March 24th (20 Thursdays). Club groups meet in the Lunch Room and Library, and we hope to reserve a third practice area in the school soon, but on our opening day festival, everyone starts in the lunch room.

To Register:

Please adhere to the one-way traffic pattern before and after school:

• Traffic on 34th flows from north to south. The bus loading zone on 34th must be kept clear. Please do not park or unload in the bus zone.
  

• Traffic on 33rd flows from south to north. Drop off and unloading area is on 33rd by Tamie's (westside of school).
• There is NO stopping on NE 60th, the street in front of the school. Stopping to either drop off or pick up children creates a dangerous environment for our everyone. This could cause a potentially serious accident.
• As a rule, please no jaywalking, crosswalks and cross at corners whenever possible.
• Finally, do not park in the bus zone at any time. We have several buses that come at different times during the day.

Let’s remember to be SAFE out there! Thank you!

With only three weeks left until classes begin again (!), we wanted to remind everyone that supply lists can be downloaded from the website under Forms & Documents > Start of School Information and Forms > Supply Lists.  There you'll find one list per grade, with an Office Depot bar code at the bottom of each, since they credit 5% of qualifying purchases back to Bryant. They'll do this all year long, so anytime you shop Office Depot, let them know you're from Bryant so they can apply the credit (our school ID is 70107355 but the cashiers can look it up without a bar code or ID).

Remember too: every time you (or your friends and relatives) shop Amazon.com through Bryant's referral link, Amazon deposits 5-10% of your purchase into our PTSA account. We made $574 last year through our Amazon link and we're up to $378 so far this year -- it works! The link is there on Bryant's home page for easy access.

Thanks and happy shopping!