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OUR MISSION

Lakeridge Elementary School values diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building and sustaining a school community where teachers, parents, learners and support staff achieve the knowledge, skills and attitudes that value and embrace inclusiveness, equity and awareness as a way to unleash creativity and innovation in pursuit of the District’s core Values, Vision, and Mission.

Lakeridge supports diversity through various initiatives, including:

• Rich Curriculum and classroom activities that reflect our diverse student population;
• School events that celebrate and honor our diverse student body and community;
• Staff development that enhances skill sets to meet the diverse needs of our learning community;
•Staff, student and parent involvement in committees and activities that study, suggest, and support diversity initiatives.

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New Websites

Welcome to the Mercer Island School District's new websites.

The Mercer Island School District is pleased to announce we have relaunched our District and school websites.

We know how important video is to telling stories about the great students, staff, and programs in the District and we are excited to have integrated video into all of our sites. On each site's home page we have a welcome message from a District or school administrator, or in the case of MIHS, a video highlighting all the school offers from Student Board Representatives Andrew Howison and Asha Woerner. There are other areas where we have incorporated video into our sites, like on our District Videos page, where we have videos ranging from Superintendent Rundle to our Discover the District series to unique features we have produced. Some of the videos are hosted on our new FinalSite content management system and some are YouTube embedded videos. As we use video more and more we will be hosting more of the videos on our site and embedding YouTube videos less frequently.

Our new sites have the capability to be translated into a language other than English. In the lower right corner of all our sites you will see an icon that says “English >”. When you click on this icon it will load a menu vertically upwards with languages that our sites can be translated into. The translation includes all text and menu navigation on pages on our sites. Right now we have five language translations enabled and will be adding more languages as we move forward.

With our new sites we have highlighted the search function with a bar in the navigation menu. In our community feedback sessions we heard about how important it was to be able to find the search function to find what a user was looking for. The search function is new to our websites, so the more our community searches, the more results will be returned. So, if it is not as robust with results as you would think to start, it will get better.

On the District site, we have incorporated photos of the staff that work in each department. We look forward to adding staff photos from each school to our sites. We think this will be the start of doing a better job celebrating our staff and all the awesome work they do with Mercer Island students.

In the upper right corner of our sites you will see a button that says "Website Correction?". While we worked hard to update every page, link, and button, while also creating new pages and also checking spelling and grammar on all pages, we know that we might have missed something here and there. So if you see a correction, click on the button to fill out a form that will let us know a correction is needed.

There are other areas where we have incorporated video into our sites, like on our District Videos page, where we have videos ranging from Superintendent Rundle to our Discover the District series to unique features we have produced. Some of the videos are hosted on our new FinalSite content management system and some are YouTube embedded videos. As we use video more and more we will be hosting more of the videos on our site and embedding YouTube videos less frequently. At the top of each site you will see a "Staff Hub", "Student Hub", and "Parent Hub" drop down menu. Each of these hubs have links to pages we think each group will find important. Below the rotating news photo gallery on each site you will see a horizontal row of square boxes with a graphic icon and text. Each of these boxes link to information we know visitors to the sites are looking for. These boxes were chosen by analyzing the Google Analytics from each site to determine what pages our community were visiting most often.

We hope you find our new sites helpful, informative, and celebratory of our great school community.

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