Parent Survey

As our schools begin to prepare for next year, parent feedback regarding your student’s educational experience is helpful in allowing us to develop our school improvement plans so that we can continue to enhance and strengthen classroom learning opportunities. Your input is appreciated and valued. We are grateful for your time in completing this confidential survey, which closes on Friday, June 1st. If you have questions regarding the survey, please contact Ryan Betz, Director of Communication at 596-6104. Thank you.

2012-13 Budget Information

The Olympia School District has begun the process of creating the 2012-13 operating budget and has put together the following information and meeting schedule. The public is invited to attend and take part in and provide input to the budget process.

The Options Program

The emotional and social growth of children and academic progress are equally valued and developed in an environment where differences and diversity are appreciated and respected.
Children stay with the same teacher in multi-age classrooms for two years or more to support their learning and strengthen family school relationships.
The curriculum is organized around concepts and themes rather than as a series of separate subjects. A variety of experiences acknowledging the many forms of intelligence encourage individual initiative and cooperative learning.
Multiple intelligences, cooperation, social justice and sustainability are taught and practiced.
Parents are vital to sustaining the Options Program and are involved in governance, as partners supporting learning in the classroom, enrichment activities, field trips, fund raising, and social events.
The Options classroom provides a developmentally-based curriculum that takes children from where they are "in total" and gives them opportunities and equipment to move forward at their own rates (in areas of their specific interest), enabling them to acquire life support skills (the basic education) in the process.