KCLS student accounts

King County Library System (KCLS) and Lake Washington School District have partnered to provide all students access to online digital library resources at school and at home. These online student accounts are different from having a KCLS library card, and the available resources include age-appropriate research databases that are often accessed to complete class assignments. Students with these accounts can access them via ClassLink, along with all of their other district-provided tools.

To create these student accounts, the following student information is shared with KCLS: name, birth year, and student ID number. During the initial student registration and annual student information verification processes, parents and guardians will see a screen with additional information about this program and can manage whether this student information is shared with this provider.

For more information about these student accounts, please visit this FAQ found at kcls.org: Student and Teacher Account | Frequently Asked Questions | King County Library System (kcls.org)

Teacher Appreciation Week and National Teacher Day 

The Lake Washington School District community celebrated our teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week (May 8-12) and National Teacher Day (May 2). We appreciate all the incredible work our teachers do for our students. Check out our Facebook page to see how our community celebrated our teachers.

King County river safety reminder

Here is a message from King County about staying safe near water as the temperatures rise:
Welcome to summer 2023! With children finishing school and about to be out of daily classes, many will visit local pools, rivers, streams lakes and Puget Sound for swimming. Water recreation is a popular summertime activity here in King County. To ensure you and your family have fun, King County is sharing ways you can plan and make safety your goal.

While most kids enjoy swimming safely, preventable drownings and other tragic situations sadly happen every year. Preventable drownings in King County continue to remain elevated with 29 fatalities in 2022, including 16 deaths in open water. In 2021, 29 people also died. In 62%of those open-water drownings, a life jacket may have saved the person’s life.

Public Health – Seattle & King County advises:

• Wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket when swimming if no lifeguards are present, and while boating, tubing, or rafting. Children ages 12 and younger are required by law to wear a life jacket on any vessel under 19 feet.
• Ensure all family members know how to swim before going in the water.
• Watch children closely when they are in or near any type of water; always stay within touching distance of small children.
• Never use alcohol, marijuana, or other impairing drugs during water and boating activities.
• Learn CPR. Visit www.kingcounty.gov/cpr for training information on Hands-Only CPR.

To learn more about this, view the full letter from King County (Español).

Free public transportation for riders 18 and under

Thanks to a huge collaboration and coordination effort by local transit agencies, youth ages 18 and younger can ride transit for free throughout King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap counties!

Process for boarding
Riders ages 13 – 18 are encouraged to show one of the following to the transit operator, if they have it:

• ORCA card
• School ID
• No ORCA card or no ID? NO problem! Simply hop onboard! 😊
• Youth under the age of 13 or without school ID are encouraged to apply for a card, with the help of an adult, at myORCA.com  

Questions?
ORCA is the agency in charge of running this program. If you have any questions, please visit https://info.myorca.com/contact/ to learn more.  

Watch Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER | May 21 to June 4 

From the director of "SCREENAGERS: Growing Up in the Digital Age" comes "Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience." Follow physician and filmmaker, Delaney Ruston, as she discovers solutions for improved adolescent well-being in the digital world. 

Visit www.lwsf.org to sign up to watch this documentary virtually between May 21 and June 4. 

This free event is brought to you by Overlake Medical Center & Clinics and Lake Washington Schools Foundation.

Double the fun – Two LWSD students named U.S. Presidential Scholars, the only two from Washington state 

Two of Lake Washington School District’s (LWSD) students have been named to an esteemed list. Lora Kwon, senior at Redmond High School, and Arihant Singh, senior at Nikola Tesla STEM High School, are 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars. The announcement was made by the United States Department of Education on May 10. According to the release, Kwon and Singh are two of 161 outstanding American high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, technical expertise, leadership, citizenship, service and contribution to school and community. They are the only two students from Washington state who were selected for this prestigious award. Read more about this on the LWSD website.