A Day in the Life

: Some staff members at prom

: 6/1/12 Delaney Brown just got her Gold Key in NYC – Great Job!! She’s in NY for the Alliance for Young Artist Awards in which her photograph won both a Gold Key and the American Visions Award. So AWESOME!!

: The photographer of this image Delaney Brown (10th grade) won the National Gold Key and American Visions award for the Alliance of Young Artists and Writers (through Scholastic) contest for 2011-2012. This is a huge honor and she joins the ranks of artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, and Joyce Carol Oates. Her work will be shown a Carnegie Hall in New York City this spring.

: Working on Classroom Based Assessments in history

: Working hard in Spanish class

: Who is the furry student in French class

: This is a wonderful part of our gym. : )

: Students in leadership planning the moving up assembly.

: Students in Eyler’s class working on their French play to present.

: Socratic seminar

: Seniors working until the end

: Poetry Slam–The esteemed judges –Which one is a Simon Cowell wannabe?

: Poetry Slam–More than twenty students came after school to demonstrate their skills.

: Ms. Griebel runs into students celebrating a birthday at breakfast.

$Math groups$: Math groups

: Mari signed her work for a framed picture that is being hung in the district office.

: Lions Scholarship

: Group shot of the all the high school Lions Club scholarship winners

: Job / Career project

: History project

$Getting math done$: Getting math done

: English class Socratic Seminar

: Drama class

: DeYoe’s geometry class

: DeYoe’s geometry class

: Cooking students work on cultural project.

: MYTHBUSTER!!!! Andy does NOT have his peer tutors grade all the papers… here he is with his rubric equipped with Power Standards and Learning Targets … grading 10,000 papers from his Junior AICE History class…. and still smiling!

: AVID students

: Cafeteria ladies are awesome!

: Thanks to the ladies in the cafeteria for making sure our students get fuel to help them focus on their learning.

: Wonderful cafeteria ladies keep students well-fed.

: Ashe doing what Ashe does.

: Washington Post Top Schools

: Senior banner honors inspirational adults

: Community service on their day off

: Students volunteer to clean up on their day off

: Students volunteer to clean up on their day off

: Teacher Data Day

: Teacher Data Day

: Teacher Data Day

: Congressional Art Contest 2012

: Kenmore Camera Contest 2012

: FWHS stats

: FWHS Artists

: Sudan-born students finds home and future at FWHS

: FWHS Choirs rock!

: Under the direction of Merlyn Ahern

: Check out Donavon Preiser’s beautiful photo, “Fall Colors-Boulder Creek.” This photo was awarded Honorable Mention in the Art Wolfe’s International Photography competition that is held every 2 years. Donavon’s photo will be displayed in the Burke Museum at the University of WAshington. The show begins on the 30th and runs thorugh October. In addition, selected winners will tour other museums in the US throughout 2013. Congratulations Donavon!

: Drying out the gym

: Dumpster full of water-logged ceiling tiles

: Drying the ceiling

: Fan venting to dry ceiling

: Drying gym ceiling

: Space-age floor drying

: Student leaders, teachers, and parents at last week’s Community Cafe discussing how we can improve the culture at FWHS to ensure all students feel welcomed and accepted.

: Science lab under the cherry blossoms

: Joe Colon, our Communities in Schools director, organized the first Advancing Leadership ” Real World Federal Way Job Shadow” program … bringing in over 20 opportunities for FWHS students to job shadow in local businesses and work places. It included an inspirational l speaker.

: Working as a team

: Wokring on senior banners—leadership team

: Taking a science quiz

: Principal in Espanol class

: Photography class

: Mr. A calling no-shows for SLCs

$Keeping skills sharp in math class$: Keeping skills sharp in math class

: Guitar class

: Group work–earth science class

$Group work in math$: Group work in math

: Fundraising Black Student Union

: French class is fun

: French class

: Former ROTC Eagle, now at UW

: Eagles working hard

: Credit check with a counselor

: Concert Choir–Looks great; sounds amazing

: Chemistry students

: Band getting in some extra practice

: Advance Placement stats group

: Anatomy class

: Analyzing essays in AP englsih

: Our competent, hard-working Americorps team–using technology!

: Americorps helping forensic science class

: Advisory

: Working on senior banners

: Day of Silence

: Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America

: Eagle activities

: Drama and Speech

: Respect the eagle…walk around the eagle.

: School play

: Track trophies

: We are the Eagles.

: Eagle teachers are well-educated!

: Eagles give blood

: Honor Society

: Operation Shoe Box Club–helping our military

: Key Club meets

: Black Student Union

: Our students come from all over the world as represented by these flags.

: FWHS Eagle

: Home of the Eagles

: Eagle cafeteria–note how clean it is. We take pride in our school.

: Young Parents Club

: FWHS Eagle

: Eagle cafeteria

: Eagle cafeteria–note how clean it is. We take pride in our school.

: Eagle cafeteria

: We offer the Cambridge Program

: Advancement Via Individual Determination

: We have a strong Air Force Junior ROTC program!

: IGNITE student mentorship program

: Eagle artists

: ASB Commendations

: Communities in Schools

: WINGS Success awards

: Guidelines for Success awards

: Asian-American Club

: Future Business Leaders of America Club

: American Sign Language Club

: Eagles are college-bound!

: Eagles are college-bound!

: Eagles are college-bound!

: A counselor shows his talent

: Mr. O collects tickets for the school play

: Eagles…future scientists

: Scientific method

: Scientific method

: Some teachers like pink…and like working to pass their National Board Certification

: Science class

: Eagles are focused on science

: Focused on Science

: Girls love math

: Science and standards

: Photography

: Photography

: Video Production Class

: Mathematicians unite

: It’s happening in history class

: Filling out college applications

: AVID tutorial–students helping students learn

: AVID tutorial–students helping students learn

: Eagles Band

: Cambridge history

: Communities in School Latino group

: Filling out college applications

: Field trip

: Eagles use Cornell notes to help them learn.

: Daily schedule

: Students study the Declaration of Independence

: Stay on target

: English teachers work together to plan for HSPE practice

: English teachers work together to plan for HSPE practice

: Technology in action

: Getting work done

: Graphic Design

: Graphic Design

: Preparing nutritious breakfast before HSPE

: Preparing for HSPE

: Looking over senior portfolio

: Discussing “Of Mice and Men”

: Even when the furnace dies, teachers keep on keepin’ on.

: No heat? No problem!

: Eagles Orchestra–Our school represented the valley region and fiddled their way through Bach, Mozart, and other classics. Our kids received the highest grade–Superior. They performed with passion and emotion to send the judges to applause.

: Photo lab

: Reciprocal Teaching–successful learning strategy

: SAT signup

: SLC practice

: Students help each other

: Of 1.5 million students who took the PSAT test this fall, 5,000 get invited to participate in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. Out of those 50,000 students, FWHS had 8— yes, that’s right, I said 8.