Superintendent Message:

Happy Monday,

The fall sports season at the MS is coming to an end this week, while Winter 1 gets ready to start next week. Doesn't seem possible that we can be that far into school already.

We had a great board workshop on Friday and have a board meeting tonight. We will be missing two board members for the meeting tonight as they have conflicts that could not be rearranged. I will be in meetings a lot this week and will be out of the office and unavailable even by cell phone most of the day Thursday.

We will be beginning a transition of our website soon along with our home calling system, as both of our contracts for those services are coming up in the next few months. Stay tuned for more info on that front!

Have a great rest of the week and feel free to reach out at ext. 2001 or at 308-5052!

- Pete

What's Going On This Week

District

• 10/23: School Board Meeting, 6:30, Board Room
• 10/25: PLC 1:40 Release
• 10/25: KBSA L&M, 2:30, Board Room
• 10/26: KBEA L&M, 3:10, Board Room
• 10/26: ES Picture Retakes
• 10/26: HS Fall Concert, 6:00, PAC

Upcoming Events

• 10/30: College & Career Day, 8-11, HS
• 10/30: Senior Parent Night, 5:30-7:30, HS
• 11/7: Ki-Be Community Council Meeting, 6:00, HS Library
• 11/13: School Board Meeting, 6:30, Board Room

Ki-Be Athletics Page for up to date athletic schedules.

Staff Member in Focus: Erin Kerr

This is my 18th year in education and my 9th year as an administrator. I have a master's degree in teaching and learning from Heritage University. I have taught Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st grade. I was a GLAD model classroom at Canyon View Elementary before becoming an Assistant Principal. I was an Assistant Principal for programs such as Spectrum Bilingual, Bilingual, Bridges, Dual both one-way and two-way, LifeSkills, Self-Contained classroom, Resource Room and general education. I also had the opportunity to continue the digital classroom work post pandemic creating a K-8 Digital program for Pasco School District.

My husband is a 3rd grade teacher in the Kennewick School District. I have a 5th grade daughter and 2nd grade son and am a girl scout coleader of my daughter's troop.
I moved to Richland at 18 months and have lived in the Tri-City area ever since. I did have a short stint at Central where I received my Bachelors in Elementary Education and taught 2 years in Toppenish.

In High School I volunteered in the Life Skills classroom and was a coach every year for the Special Olympics. I was a Senate page in Olympia my freshman year and traveled the nation performing. I was part of the main act and front row center stage for the Capital One bowl half time show my sophomore year.