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Rock, paper scissors. Basketball. Uno. Soccer. Kids line up to play games with Campus Safety Specialist Carlos Avila Duran as he makes his rounds through Chase Middle School. Lau...

The excitement and action of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Games can be found at Linwood Elementary School this week. With each class representing a different country, ...

A great way for students to learn is to connect classroom lessons with their personal experiences and interests. So Skate4Concrete was the perfect curriculum for Gary Gillespie’s...

Middle and high school students who are turning out for spring sports can visit one of our school-based health clinics (SBHC) for a no-charge sports physical in February. These c...

Carol Pederson can’t remember a time when music wasn’t part of her life. Raised in a deeply musical family with a mother who was a church organist and choir teacher, music was ne...

Last week, poetry, essays, and artwork by students from Salk Middle School, Shadle Park, Lewis and Clark, and Rogers high schools were featured in The Black Lens and The Spokesma...

Last Friday, nearly 2,000 Spokane families attended Winterfest at Riverfront Park. Organized by Spokane Public Schools and Launch NW , Winterfest provided an opportunity for stud...

WSU College of Nursing’s Dr. Anne Mason, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, shares how a good night’s sleep makes a big difference in a student’s abilities as they part...

While about 100 school counselors work across Spokane Public Schools, there’s sometimes lingering confusion about their role. During National School Counseling Week (Feb. 2-6), we...

Spokane Public Schools is deploying robotic floor-cleaning machines across secondary buildings as part of a broader effort to improve maintenance and increase efficiency. The dis...

Spokane Public Schools staff and students are hyped in their blue and green, and ready to cheer for the Seattle Seahawks! Let’s go, Hawks!

Last week, the City of Spokane received a $200,000 “Healthy and Sustainable Communities” grant to support and expand The ZONE Spokane’s Youth Wellness Zone (YWZ), a youth-led in...

In December, national print and digital news organizational Education Week visited six of our schools to learn about Engage IRL , our initiative with LaunchNW to get kids off scr...

Over the weekend at St. George’s School in north Spokane, 15 Odyssey at Libby students competed at the First LEGO League Robotics State Championships for the third year in a row! ...

Do you know how to solve a Rubik's Cube? If you want some help, you might have to watch on half-speed to keep up with Bryson, Amelia, Sam, Alaska and Aiden, members of the Woodr...

At the heart of the upcoming Winterfest event lies one shared vision: Every Kid. Every Day. In Real Life . Spokane Public Schools (SPS) and LaunchNW created this mantra to enc...

Salk Middle School 6th grader Jennifer Cherkashin was selected as the Middle Level Winner for the 2026 Washington State Youth Art Month contest. “We had many student artists from...

Local Lithia Motors dealerships presented $50,000 to students and staff in the NEWTech Prep automotive program on Wednesday. Lithia, which operates 455 locations in three countri...

Extracurricular LEGO clubs are pretty popular at our elementary schools, but did you realize that each kit is sorted by hand so students have the right pieces to create their bril...

Spokane Public Schools and CHAS Health ushered in the opening of a new school-based health clinic (SBHC) at Joel E. Ferris High School last week. The new space offers on-site me...