Willow Wind Community Learning Center

Ga-Ga Ball! It's been a fun week learning how to play - students and adults too!

May Day 2022 at Willow Wind. Hail was falling as the dancers began - What a fun day!

May Day Celebration Returns to Willow Wind!

Parachute Fun Today at Lunch

Lunch in the Food Forest on this beautiful spring day at Willow Wind!

The First Graders delivered mail to the Willow Wind Community during the month of February. We will miss the lovely letters but are so grateful for all of their work.

Thank you to the families who helped deliver fresh compost to our spring garden. And thanks to Plant Oregon for donating the compost! It takes a village!

The daffodils at Willow Wind opened up this week - first signs of spring!

Today was an exciting day of learning! We have been at school for 100 days!

The Upper School Leadership Class surprised Willow Wind by decorating the classroom doors for Valentine's Day - What a lovely surprise!

The Upper School students spent Thursday afternoon building community together at Garfield Park.

This weekend we are delivering Valentines to seniors at the Rogue Valley Manor. The students in grades 1 and 3 made cards for their pen pals.

This week is American School Counselor Appreciation Week! Ashland School District has many talented and dedicated behavioral health specialists. Please take a moment to recognize and get to know the two fantastic people working here at Willow Wind Community Learning Center! Lance Matthewson: Child Development Specialist Lance moved from New Mexico to Ashland last summer. He has twenty years’ experience working with K-12 students individually, in group settings and teaching whole class SEL (Social Emotional Learning) lessons. He refers to the Willow Wind setting as a “paradise”. This past 6 months he has balanced two distinct roles, working as both the CDS and as the afternoon Outdoor Ed teacher. He has loved getting to know and working with the students and parents of this community. He will be moving into the newly created CDS position at AMS in late February. Sydney Heim: Student Advocate Sydney joined Willow Wind this fall. She has worked at summer camps for several years and loves working with the entire age range of kids at Willow Wind. She has enjoyed both her in-class and yard support responsibilities and looks forward to learning more about the position’s breadth of possible roles. Karsten Peterson Karsten joined ASD this fall. She has extensive experience in mediation work and a special passion for work that supports the growth of resiliency and embeds restorative practices. She has the unique responsibility of working at all our elementary schools. Miraculously, she manages to travel to all five campuses every week to individually support students. She also devotes countless above and beyond hours to the coordination of trainings for our team and the development of staff professional development presentations.

February is Black History Month and we are celebrating the achievements of African Americans and recognizing their central role in U.S. history. When you are in the parking lot, notice the mural students made a few years ago. It is hanging on the fence. All classes will be learning about Black History this month.

2022-2023 WILLOW WIND INQUIRY FORMS ARE AVAILABLE The Inquiry Forms for enrollment at Willow Wind for Fall 2022 are now available on the website. You can find it here: https://www.ashland.k12.or.us/o/wwclc/page/inquiry-forms We will start meeting with interested families right after Spring Break. Please reach out if you have questions -

Thank you to our supportive parents and students - Willow Wind staff received this special surprise this morning. Cookies to begin the week -

Yesterday we had a wet, snowy community sing and Winter Walk of Light. Everyone brought shining stars to the dark and stormy day! So much fun and so cold!

Today the Hummingbirds (Grade 4) and Treefrogs (Grade 5) loaded up all the food collected from the Food Drive and it was delivered to the Ashland Food Bank - Thanks to all who donated!

The 4th and 5th graders are organizing a food drive to help support Ashland families and the Ashland Food Bank. Today they taught other students about the need and encouraged them all to participate. They are collecting food next week to donate.

The first graders decorated cards and wrote messages to Veterans. The notes will be mailed to A Million Thanks who will forward them to deployed military personnel and retired veterans. Have a great day off tomorrow!