State Street High School Land Improvement Project

Partnership between Sedro-Woolley School District, Sedro-Woolley Alumni & Schools Foundation, Leadership Skagit, and Team Generation Skagit

Skagit County is a special place – a community full of natural beauty, diverse people, successful industry, and so much more. This is not surprising to somebody like you, somebody who calls this area home or home base. For 18-years, Leadership Skagit has developed leaders to support and enhance this wonderful region. Now we – a part of the Leadership Skagit class of 2022 – ask that you join us in our efforts to enhance part of our community.

Who is our Partner?
State Street High School (SSHS) in Sedro-Woolley provides students with diverse academic and vocational skills, empowering their success in a changing world. It is a personalized learning environment where students are valued as individuals and academically prepared for the future. It is a school that gives people alternative education and offers unique attention to the individualized needs of those who attend. Knowledge and personal development should be accessible to all of our children and should take place in a space that feels welcoming and accessible. SSHS offers this to students who are not best served in a traditional high school setting and are critical in helping to develop an underserved and often overlooked population of our children.

What is the Need We are Addressing?
At SSHS, there is limited outdoor space that has been developed for student use. COVID-19 has placed a premium on access to outdoor space, where the risk for spread and infection is greatly reduced. While speaking with SSHS Principal, Barb Askland, and with the input of the current student body, it was made clear that improved outdoor space was needed – space where students could do the simplest of tasks, such as eating lunch, socializing, and experience nature. Again, COVID-19 has created an environment where these standard school time activities are challenging within their small facility, leading many students to participate in school-from-home options.

How are we Addressing this need?
Team Generation Skagit, in conjunction with the Sedro-Woolley School District, and the Sedro-Woolley Alumni and School Foundation, are looking to provide such a space to these students; a space that supports the mission and vision of State Street High School. Team Generation Skagit is looking to increase the paved and useable outdoor space at SSHS, improve outdoor seating, adding natural vibrancy and foliage, and biggest of all adding safe shelter covering for these spaces to make them usable all year long.

Team Generation Skagit and the Sedro Woolley School District cannot do this alone. We are looking to you to join our efforts by making a gift in support of our county’s children. It is not too late to send a gift to make this project a reality!

If giving through the on-line option, please select “Leadership Skagit - State Street HS Project” from their drop-down menu to assure the funds go to the correct place. If giving through the mail, please make checks out to SDASF and write “Leadership Skagit State Street HS Project” in the memo line.

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