PreKindergarten - 3rd Grade: A New Beginning for American Education , a video produced by The New School Foundation with support from the Foundation for Child Development.
South Shore Kindergarten Teacher, Huyen Lam, wins 2009 Golden Apple Award
South Shore Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - seattlepi.com, 9/8/2009
November 2008 Newsletter- PDF Format
Topping Off Ceremony at The New School
Press Release, October 2008
The New School Learning Garden slide show- June 2008
June 2008 Newsletter- PDF Format
December 2007 Newsletter- PDF Format
June 2007 Newsletter- PDF Format
Seattle Public Schools Receives $1.3 million grant for the New School at South Shore
Press release, May 2007
Setting the stage for musical success
The Seattle Times, 4/18/2007
Members of the Young Eight string octet mentor students and invite budding musicians
to play alongside them in concert.
April 2007 Newsletter- PDF Format
Columbia Building interim site for New School
Press release, February 2007
Yes, money can buy you a good school
The Seattle Times, 11/15/2006
The New School at South Shore demonstrates that adequate public funding can buy an extraordinary public education.
Fall 2006 Newsletter- PDF Format
KUOW's “Class of 2006, Part One: The Helper”
June 2006
Phyllis Fletcher interviews Moriah Williams, a graduating 5th grader at T.T. Minor
Spring 2006 Newsletter- PDF Format
Correction: On page 2, the cost given for construction of a new building for The
New School at South Shore, is incorrect. Forty million dollars was a preliminary
figure being discussed prior to completion of the design of the project. The figure
alloted in the BEX III bond package for construction of a new building at Rainier
and Henderson designed to contain a PK-8 school is $64 million.
Winter 2005 Newsletter - PDF Format
Building a 21st Century Economy: The Case for Investing in Early Education Reform
New America Foundation, Issue Brief #1, December 2005
Every School a T.T. Minor
The Seattle Times, November 2, 2005 Editorial
Inside T.T. Minor
The Seattle Times, October 9, 2005 - PDF Format
Setting a Good Example at The New School
The Seattle Times, July 6, 2005.
Bridging the PreK - Elementary Divide
Harvard Education Letter, July/August 2005
Blossoming school facing closure
The Seattle Times, April 22, 2005
Quartet inspires young to take up instruments
The Seattle Times, October 23, 2004
Be sure to click on the Hear the Kids Play and Photo Gallery links!
WASL, SAT: All news we should use
The Seattle Times, September 8, 2004
Results from two key academic tests do their job as diagnostic tools, pointing out areas of concern and allowing schools to turn toward solutions.
Seattle schools trail state on WASL
Seattle PI, September 3, 2004
Seattle fared worse than the state as a whole on this year's WASL. But administrators say that while there's still a great deal of work to be done in raising academic achievement, results such as T.T. Minor's show encouraging gains.
The Learning Curve: Rainier Scholars
NPR - The Learning Curve, June 21, 2004
The majority of students enrolled in college are white, even though many public high schools are quite diverse. In this edition of The Learning Curve, we look at an organization in Seattle called “Rainier Scholars”, which recruits bright children of color and takes them though an intense college prep program, beginning in 6th grade.
Seattle's innovative school programs produce results
King 5 TV, May 25, 2004
SEATTLE - When 11-year-old Anthony Herst started school he had a lot more to worry about than grades. But now, the 5th grade former foster child is among the best and brightest in his school, recognized as a “Rainier Scholar.”
2004 Annual Report- PDF Format
Winter 2003 Newsletter- PDF Format
New K-8 school planned
The Seattle Times, October 4, 2001
The foundation started by Stuart Sloan, the Seattle businessman who adopted T.T. Minor Elementary three years ago, may get involved with a second Seattle school.
Pupils sign off on civics lesson
The Seattle Times, July 11, 2000
He thought he was visiting T.T. Minor Elementary School yesterday to recognize 40 first-graders who had successfully lobbied the city to install traffic-safety signs near their school.
The Capital Improvement Project at T.T. Minor Elementary School
An illustrated timeline - PDF Format
