Announce­ment from Prin­ci­pal Stow­ell:

“Good after­noon, RESMS Fam­i­lies,

RESMS has been very for­tu­nate to receive fund­ing from the vot­er-approved City of Seat­tle Levy for the past six years. The 2025–26 school year will be the final year of this levy. While vot­ers have approved a new levy, the City of Seat­tle is cur­rent­ly in the eval­u­a­tion and plan­ning phase for the next roll­out. We expect to have a clear­er pic­ture of how these funds can be accessed by the end of June, with imple­men­ta­tion begin­ning in the 2026–27 school year.

At this time, RESMS has received our bud­get allo­ca­tion for next year, and it does not include levy fund­ing. As a result, we are plan­ning for the 2026–27 school year with an esti­mat­ed $615,000 fund­ing gap. Cur­rent­ly, levy funds sup­port cer­tifi­cat­ed teach­ers, coun­selors, men­tal health ther­a­pists, stu­dent and fam­i­ly advo­cate, a social work­er, tutors, sum­mer school, and addi­tion­al staff time for col­lab­o­ra­tion and pro­fes­sion­al learn­ing.

Com­pound­ing this chal­lenge, Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools is fac­ing an $80–100 mil­lion dis­trictwide deficit, and our build­ing allo­ca­tion has also been reduced.

As always, we will nav­i­gate these chal­lenges thought­ful­ly and respon­si­bly. That said, there will be some dif­fi­cult deci­sions ahead. Our high­est pri­or­i­ty is to make sound, data-dri­ven choic­es that min­i­mize the impact to the stu­dent Raven Expe­ri­ence. I ask for your trust as we take what we are hand­ed and move for­ward col­lec­tive­ly with inten­tion­al­i­ty, joy, and a con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to our upward momen­tum as a com­mu­ni­ty.

You may be won­der­ing, “How can I advo­cate? Who should I con­tact?” For now, I ask that you con­tin­ue sup­port­ing our school as you have been. If and when there are oppor­tu­ni­ties to ele­vate your voic­es with deci­sion-mak­ers, I will be sure to reach out.

Thank you, as always, for your con­tin­ued sup­port.

GO RAVENS!

Zac Stow­ell, Prin­ci­pal”

Louis Eaglestaff is host­ing a RESMS Super Bowl par­ty. He has super­vi­sion, but could always use a lit­tle more. This is to cre­ate a once in a life­time expe­ri­ence with friends. I got mine 10 years ago, so I want­ed to do this for my daugh­ter and all our stu­dents. We would like every­one to sign up so we have an idea on num­bers and how much piz­za to  get.

Dear RESMS Par­ents and Guardians,

I am a con­cerned com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber and par­ent of a stu­dent at RESMS. ICE has stepped up oper­a­tions in Seat­tle with North and South King Coun­ty being impact­ed the most by them. Abduc­tions have occurred along Auro­ra and just a few blocks from the school. A few of us par­ents have decid­ed to estab­lish an ICE Watch school patrol. This is a parent/community orga­nized and dri­ven vol­un­teer ini­tia­tive! It is not a Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools ini­tia­tive.

Par­ent and school com­mu­ni­ties have recent­ly estab­lished ICE Watch school patrols at oth­er schools with­in the dis­trict and there is a need for one at Eagle Staff.

The pur­pose of these ICE Watch school patrols is to imme­di­ate­ly doc­u­ment and report any sight­ings of ICE that are in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of the school. If you have Rapid Response train­ing or are will­ing to attend a Rapid Response train­ing, please con­sid­er vol­un­teer­ing a cou­ple hours of time in the week to pro­vide eyes on the ground and alert sup­port for our RESMS stu­dents, staff, fam­i­lies, and com­mu­ni­ty. We are empha­siz­ing that this is the pri­ma­ry pur­pose of the ICE Watch school patrol and thus min­i­mal inter­ac­tions with stu­dents com­ing to and from RESMS is expect­ed to best ensure child safe­ty pro­to­cols are fol­lowed and to main­tain the focus on the pur­pose of the patrol. The aim is ensure our pres­ence is sup­port­ive, rather than dis­tract­ing.

To share your inter­est and avail­abil­i­ty for join­ing the RESMS vol­un­teer school patrol kind­ly com­plete the fol­low­ing sign up form: https://bit.ly/RESMSpatrol

Please send your ques­tions to resmsschoolpatrol@gmail.com.

Raven’s Hoops!

Sat­ur­day 1/10 at Franklin High School

Girls’ Var­si­ty 8:30am vs. Wash­ing­ton Mid­dle School

Boys’ Var­si­ty  10am vs. Meany Mid­dle School

We are lucky enough to get a Decem­ber slot for our Barnes & Noble Book Fair this year for hol­i­day shop­ping! The way it works is any pur­chase at the North­gate store OR online, using the url and code (new this year!) on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 6^th , a per­cent­age of the sale comes back to the library. In the past we’ve been able to earn about $1,500 which is A LOT of books.

Please vol­un­teer to sign up to sit at our table to hand out our codes to shop­pers for an hour at some point that day (fam­i­lies wel­come). I have a sign up sheet here: Book Fair Sign Up — RESMS 2025.xls

HELP SUPPORT OUR LIBRARY

Any­thing you buy in store can donate a per­cent­age back to our school. You can also shop online at bn.com/bookfairs and use code 12918256 at check­out on that day!
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/bookfairs

Gen­er­al Ses­sion com­ing up!

Ski bus