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Welcome to the ‘fam’

by Douglas Buell -- Marysville Globe -- 09/08/2017

Sincere interest and a few kind words of encouragement from upperclassmen at Arlington High School can make even the most anxious new freshman students feel welcome on their first day.


Link Crew Get's the Class of 2021 Off to a Great Start

by SAN MARINO HIGH SCHOOL -- Pasadena Now -- 09/08/2017

Sure, the high school experience is in large part about students identifying and challenging their academic gait, but it’s also much more than that.


South Kitsap High welcomes more than 2,800

by Chris Henry -- Kitsap Sun -- 09/06/2017

South Kitsap High School senior Destiny Illingworth held up a sign that read "I Can Help" as students got off buses Wednesday, the first day of school.


WEB News

Elyria City Schools believe in Where Everybody Belongs

by Carol Harper -- The Morning Journal -- 08/13/2015

New school, big building, plenty of fresh faces. The angst of the first days of a new school year ease in Elyria through the efforts of peer mentors who stick with younger students as they fumble with lockers and find classrooms.


Beattie Middle School in Highland holds first sixth-grade orientation

by Sandra Emerson -- Redlands Daily Facts -- 08/11/2015

Incoming sixth-graders at Beattie Middle School on Tuesday exchanged high fives with cheering seventh- and eighth-graders as they arrived on campus, where interactive activities, a tour and new friends awaited them.


J.W. Poynter Middle School seventh-graders ushered into school, big transition with careful welcome

by Katherine Driessen -- The Oregonian -- 09/03/2013

Organized chaos. That's how J.W. Poynter Middle School Principal Greg Timmons, with a wry smile, described welcoming about 400 seventh-grade students Tuesday.