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The future of Kittitas County

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Future of retail Visions of big box retail fade for Kittitas Valley

Future of downtown Ellensburg Study shows downtown Ellensburg on the right track

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Downtown Cle Elum Enthusiasm is renewed to revitalize downtown Cle Elum

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Caution: Future may be smaller than it appears

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Visions of big box retail may be fading for Kittitas Valley

By MICHAEL GALLAGHER assistant editor When envisioning the future, people are often encouraged to "dream big.� More realistic retail advice for Ellensburg may be to think small.

Ellensburg has been debating big-box retail both pro and con for the past 25 years. As recently as 2007 the city seemed perched on the precipice of regional retail development with a proposal for the Interstate 90 west interchange. The Great Recession of 2008 scuttled those plans.

A recession, though, is something the economy recovers from, creating hope that development can occur "as soon as things get better."

The question now is whether the nature of retail itself has changed.

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RETAIL Continued from Page 3 According the Total Recall 2016 survey published by Price Waterhouse, U.S. retail store sales in the April-July 2015 period dropped from the corresponding April-July 2014 stretch by a per month rate of 14.6 percent, 9.8 percent, 9.1 percent and 11 percent.

The shift to online shopping may have been most apparent during shopping over the

2015 Thanksgiving weekend.

RetailNext, which compiles information on brick and mortar stores, reported sales declines of 4.7 percent for Thanksgiving weekend 2015. ShopperTrak, which monitors traffic at stores and malls, showed a 10 percent reduction during the holiday weekend.

On the online side, Adobe Digital Index recorded a 16 percent increase in online sales for the holiday weekend from the previous year.

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RETAIL Continued from Page 5 Not all online shopping is created equal. According to the Price Waterhouse report, people are increasingly comfortable buying electronics, computers, books, music and video games online, but people still prefer to visit physical locations to purchase furniture and groceries.

Ellensburg: In the zone One thing Ellensburg does have in quantity is land zoned for regional retail development at the west and south I-90 interchanges. But is that zoning, called commercial tourist, the right fit for 2016 and beyond?

“We need to rethink (the west interchange). We’re not going to have big stores coming in here,” said Bob Hansen, longterm Ellensburg Realtor. He represents the west interchange property owner, the Lamb family.

The city of Ellensburg has two primary land-use zones at the I-90 interchanges — commercial tourist and commercial highway.

According to the city’s zoning code, commercial tourist zoning “is intended to encourage suitable areas for commercial lodging, service stations, eating and amusement places, and other establishments primarily servicing Interstate 90 and U.S. Highway 97 travelers.”

In addition, specific areas of the commercial-tourist zone designated general commercial may have regional retail commercial uses.

The stated purpose of the commercial highway zone is to “accommodate diversified commercial establishments.”

The commercial highway zone allows small to large scale retail use but specifically excludes super-scale retail (over 60,000 square feet of floor area).

Kirsten Sackett, director of the city of Ellensburg Community Development Department, said the two zones are similar in terms of allowed uses.

“There are very few differences between them to be honest,” Sackett said.

Whether the city’s land is zoned appropriately is a pertinent issue, Sackett said.

The city, Kittitas County and other jurisdictions in the county are preparing to embark on a comprehensive plan review process this year. She said the goal is for all the entities to do it in a coordinated fashion.

What to expect Hansen has had extensive conversations with national retailers over the years and said big-box retail is hurting across the nation.

“The retail industry has pulled back pretty tight,” Hansen said.

Hansen said major retailers operate under the premise that Ellensburg already is being served by the stores in Yakima.

“They know they’re already getting their money out of here,” Hansen said. “There’s no reason to open a store here because they’re already getting the market.”

The absence of big-box retailers does not mean that area will not develop, Hansen said, it just means it won’t happen in rapid fashion.

“I think it will develop but it will be mixed uses,” Hansen said. “It will develop, but it will be slow.”

Downtown: Future past Perhaps it should not be surprising that a downtown built well enough to survive more than 100 years is built to survive the next 100 as well.

Carolyn Honeycutt, director of the Ellensburg Downtown Association, said few malls are being constructed across the country, but small downtowns are seeing a revitalization.

“In the last 10 to 20 years I’ve been working in downtowns, downtown revitalization has come a long way,” Honeycutt said.

In the Internet era people may not need to see the large selection in a warehousesized building, but they do want something a small town provides.

“People want a more personal touch,” Honeycutt said.

Over the past two to three decades, small town commercial cores have evolved away from stores that directly compete with national outlets.

There are exceptions, though.

Ellensburg has a downtown hardware store (Woods) and clothing stores.

“Luckily we have a nice mix of retail here,” Honeycutt said.

The trend of people living in the downtown core could create opportunities for even more retail.

One change for Ellensburg’s downtown over the coming decades could be expansion, Honeycutt said.

There has been discussion of expanding the downtown commercial core to Water Street.

“Downtown expansion could reinforce the city center,” Honeycutt said.

Rapid change Part of the uncertainty over the future of retail stems from the rapid pace of change.

“The speed of change in retail has been astonishing,” said Jim Armstrong, executive director of the Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce.

Armstrong said big-box retailers have trouble competing with online giant Amazon.

“The retailers don’t have huge margins,” Armstrong said.

With low margins, if the retailers can’t sell in bulk it makes the business model less viable. In contrast, Armstrong said a small local store like Mountain High Sports can maintain its customer base by focusing on product quality and service.

“I think local stores do well in that area,” Armstrong said.

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D&M Coffee Company at the corner of Third Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Ellensburg in November 2015.

The future of downtown is now Study shows downtown on the right track

By NICOLE KLAUSS staff writer

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hat will downtown Ellensburg look like in the next five years?

It could have an Ellensburg Town Square, a downtown hotel, co-working spaces or an investment program.

Those are all ideas presented in the report "Downtown Market Study and Economic Development Plan" by consul-

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tant group Arnett Muldrow and Associates.

The group conducted a market analysis and zipcode study to identify opportunities for the Ellensburg downtown.

The study was contracted last June and funded by the Ellensburg Downtown Association, the Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce, the Ellensburg Business Development Authority (EBDA) and the Lodging Tax Advisory

Committee.

The final report was released last month. Now it's up to the EBDA's Downtown Revitalization Committee to decide what projects to pursue next.

On the right track One of the big takeaways from the report for EDA Director Carolyn Honeycutt was the fact Ellensburg’s downtown is thriving. The consultant said Ellensburg is

on the right track and now needs to expand that success and reinforce it.

The EDA has typically focused on revitalizing downtown. It’s been a goal for Ellensburg as a Main Street community and for the Main Street organization.

“One of the things that came out of the report is how well Ellensburg is doing,” she said. “Revitalization may not be the word we need right now.”

The report identified four core areas that the downtown should focus on: reinforcing the center, expanding success, connecting the community and enhancing the visitor experience. Honeycutt said it’s time to start focusing on those areas in new conversations.

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Ways to reinforce the center include implementing an Ellensburg Town Square as a gathering place (next to the Rotary Pavilion if possible), continuing to promote and pursue upper floor mixed-use development, working to build an Ellensburg Gateway at the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue, implementing co-working space and potential makers space, continuing ongoing recruitment and retention of retail and exploring the realignment of the farmers market.

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DOWNTOWN Continued from Page 9 The EDA can expand success by looking at the downtown as a broader city center, partnering with new and existing investors on underutilized sites, hosting an investment forum in the community, creating an investment club, cultivating a partnership for signature street signage, considering a community center in the city and considering and employer-assisted housing fund, according to the report.

To connect the community, the EDA can implement ideas to bring together arts and culture in ways that connect physical space to needs in the community, and implement bicycle friendly streets.

Hotel, green space Suggestions to enhance the visitor experience include new wayfinding signs, moving the visitor center to the core of downtown, modifying parking and pursuing a downtown boutique hotel with meeting space and parking.

“I think some of the recommendations we are looking at are things like the downtown boutique hotel — is there a place we can look at and help figure out how it could happen,” Honeycutt said.

The EDA’s role isn’t necessarily to implement the projects itself, but to use its connections to make things happen. It can help bring together people who want to invest in the city’s downtown with property owners and businesses.

“I think making a town center green-space type of area is a big need in the downtown,” Honeycutt said.

“We don’t really have that gathering space.”

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DOWNTOWN Continued from Page 10 The report’s breakdown identifies steps the EDA can take this year, in 2017-2018 and long term from 2018-2022 to focus on those four areas.

“If we start some of these things… think how much that could really take what’s already happening and make it so much better,” Honeycutt said.

Read the final report online at http://ellensburgdowntown.org/ arnett-muldrow-finalreport/.

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Renewed energy Enthusiasm behind effort to improve Cle Elum’s downtown

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here's new energy and fresh focus on efforts to revitalize downtown Cle Elum and Mayor Jay McGowan couldn't be more enthused.

Credit an invigorated relationship between City Hall and the nonprofit Cle Elum Downtown Association, a group of business leaders who oversee Cle Elum's Main Street program.

“The important thing is the business community and City Hall are working together,” said McGowan, who often attends meetings of the Cle Elum Downtown Association. “I am completely behind the Main Street program.”

In January, Vision Cle Elum, a nonprofit that worked to plan for the community's future, enhance the economic development downtown and organized events, was dissolved after Kerri Farnum, director, took a job with the city.

“In the past the Vision effort was city-driven,” McGowan said. “It used to be like Vision was being run out of City Hall. Now it's part of the Cle Elum Downtown

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Farnum serves as the volunteer executive director of that organization. Events which formerly were coordinated by Vision are being sponsored and organized by other entities, such as the Cle Elum Downtown Association.

Main Street matters The Main Street program is part of a national program that provides a unique, preservation-based strategy for revitalizing business districts. The goal is to create safe, attractive business districts while strengthening their economy and diversifying their economic base.

Under the Washington State Main Street program, businesses are allowed to pledge a portion of their state business and operations taxes to the local organization in return for a tax credit. The proceeds can then be used to help fund infrastructure.

While Cle Elum's Main Street program has existed for years, McGowan said the effort has operated in “fits and starts” and struggled to gain real traction.

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CLE ELUM Continued from Page 15 But new energy came into the effort to revitalize the downtown core when longtime businessman Ben Goldie, owner of the Cottage Cafe and now president of the Cle Elum Downtown Association got involved.

“He saw the structure to get something done and began promoting it,” McGowan said. “He deserves the credit for getting it underway again and it’s growing.

The Main Street program is gaining momentum.”

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But before anything major can happen, it’s first things first, McGowan said.

“The one thing the group is working on right now is figuring out how to get funding to put a storm drain system down the old part of town,” McGowan said. The project won’t be cheap but is absolutely essential, he said.

“The thing we recognize is that before there can be any change in street configuration we have to have a storm drain system put in place.

It’s the first step to changing our downtown area.”

Fourth of July The city’s Fourth of July Pioneer Days celebration has long been a signature event.

This year, McGowan said, will be no different. Organizer Susie Weis wants to maintain the established elements of the celebration while broadening the focus to encourage new ones.

“Pioneer Days is going to operate under the Main Street program until it gets on its feet. It’s going to be a lovely event,” McGowan said, noting that Weis is working with surrounding communities to develop activities for the annual celebration.

That’s music to McGowan’s ears.

“I am excited that all the communities will be working together,” he said. “The other thing I like about it — one of the primary focuses — is the fire departments will be in on it so they can use it for fundraising for their associations.”

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The group’s long-term goal: creating a pedestrian-friendly downtown business district complete with diagonal parking, attractive lighting and other amenities designed to encourage people not just to pass through Cle Elum but to stop, shop and stay awhile.

The aim is to create an environment that makes people feel like Cle Elum is “an oasis, not just a truck stop,” said McGowan, who has played an active role in imagining that change. As a Cle Elum city council member, he previously created a mock-up of what changes to the downtown business district might look like.

There are plenty of ideas floating around about changes that will help improve Cle Elum’s downtown, McGowan said. One small example: placing “pocket parks” in the downtown business area.

“With pocket parks, they take one or two parking spaces and plunk a structure down there,” McGowan said. “They can have a table and a

place to sit down. It’s sort of like a pedestrian rest area.

“They’re like portable structures the city can pick up and move in the winter time. A lot of cities have them.”

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Members of the King County Posse ride through downtown Cle Elum during the annual Pioneer Days Parade on July 4, 2015.

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Organic Windy N Ranch near Ellensburg blazes a new path

By JESSE MAJOR staff writer

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hen Greg Newhall and his business partners bought Windy N Ranch near Ellensburg 14 years ago, no one had any idea it would be anything other than a hay farm.

Today the organic farm just west of Ellensburg is leading the way with direct-to-consumer sales, Animal Welfare Approved livestock and agritourism.

The 800-acre ranch raises beef, pork, goat, lamb, chickens, turkeys, pheasants, and sells chicken and duck eggs. They also have pet alpacas, llamas, peacocks, turkeys and pheasants.

The large variety of animals makes Windy N Ranch unique. No other ranch in the country has as many species of animals that are certified Animal Welfare Approved. The national program audits and certifies family farms that use high welfare standards.

“One of the things that makes us different — or maybe crazy — is the number of species we have,” Greg Newhall said. “None of our groups of animals are incredibly large, but the number of species is unusual.”

Starting out Cattle and chickens were the first animals added to the operation. They added the cattle when they realized the herd grazing in the fields would be a good way to improve the quality of their hay.

“The trigger for me was understanding the synergistic relationship between a good haying operation and animal husbandry,” Greg said.

From there, Windy N Ranch expanded into raising the large variety of livestock it does today.

Greg’s son Bradley Newhall described the ranch’s evolution from a hay farm to having such a large variety of animals a little differently.

“Dad doesn’t tip toe, he jumps in,” Bradley said.

“Dad’s practice is you jump into the deep end of the pool with cinderblocks attached to your feet, and you swim.”

Certification It requires more paperwork, but Bradley said his family’s ranch hardly needed to change any practices to get the Animal Welfare Approved certification.

“Animal husbandry, caring for the animals, is a big deal to us,” he said. “We know there’s people that do take a lot of pride in where they buy their meat. They want to know the proteins they put on their dinner plate are produced in a humane manner.”

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ORGANIC Continued from Page 19 That is the market Windy N caters to, said his father, Greg Newhall.

Greg said his goal is to be a one-stop-shop, where people can get many different proteins.

“We have clients come to us intending to purchase beef, then they end up purchasing a pheasant, duck eggs, or something they didn’t intend to purchase,” he said.

“But they are very happy with the different product.”

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ORGANIC Continued from Page 21

Sells directly to consumer Greg Newhall purchased the ranch with Gary and Nancy Jones. Gary Jones handles the financial side of the ranch and works with the Newhalls in planning for the Windy N Ranch’s future.

Another thing that makes Windy N unusual is the farm sells directly to the consumer, while most ranches sell to a consolidator, Bradley said.

This allows Windy N Ranch to adjust their birthing times to be later in the year, and easier on the animals. Other ranchers have animals give birth in January and February so the animals can be as large as possible for sales later in the year.

Windy N Ranch starts in about mid April, when it’s a little warmer out.

“It’s easier on the animals and easier on our workers,” Bradley said. “We’re not held to the restrictions of the market like everyone else.”

Greg emphasized that their practices aren’t necessarily better than other ranches in the area, just different.

“We’re after a different market,” he said.

“Our market is direct to the consumer and their market is to a consolidator. It just works out better for us. We just prefer it that way.”

He also said a reason there aren’t many organic operations is because there is so much paperwork to manage.

What surprises many people is that their certified organic beef is less expensive than cuts found at grocery stores. The catch though, is that it has to be bought in bulk.

“We go as small as an eighth of a beef,” Bradley said. “It would be snug, but it fits in a standard upright kitchen freezer.”

It’s not unusual for customers to buy beef, then split it up between friends or relatives, they said.

Customers The ranch’s customers are everyday people who care about the quality of their meats and how the animals were treated, Greg said.

A good portion of their customers come from the West Side, though Windy N sells locally and as far as Alaska. Daily Bread

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The sign welcomes customers to the Windy N Ranch. The ranch serves several farmers markets on both sides of the mountains including Roslyn on Sundays. and Mercantile in Ellensburg sells cuts of their meats, chickens and eggs. Their chicken eggs can also be found at Better Life Natural Foods in Ellensburg.

Their food can also be found in Roslyn and Winthrop, as well

as various farmers markets throughout the state.

On Wednesdays Windy N Ranch is at the Sammamish Farmers Market; on Thursdays they are at the Bellevue Farmers Market; Saturdays they are at the Issaquah

Farmers Market; and Sundays they are at the Roslyn Farmers Market.

Agritourism Customers can pick up orders from Windy N Ranch’s affiliated office in Bellevue, but Windy N encourages its customers to go

directly to the ranch in Kittitas County to pick up their orders.

While there, they can get a tour of the operation and see how everything works, Greg said.

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ORGANIC Continued from Page 23 “We encourage that so they understand what we do,” he said. “The task of educating people as to what goes on on a farm is one of our responsibilities.”

The ranch has plans to put in cabins that people could rent out and stay at for a day, week, or even a month, Bradley said.

They aren’t sure yet when that would happen, but for now they have a studio that they rent out so that people can experience life on the farm.

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homeschooled her children visited for a few weeks to teach her children about agriculture.

“They were doing ranch chores, then had their studies during the day,” Bradley said.

The interest in this kind of tourism comes from how detached people can be from their food sources, he said.

“There’s a lot of people on the West Side who have never pulled food out of the ground,” he said.

“We’re so detached from food production that we kind of crave that.”

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ABOVE: Hens are one of many species raised on Windy N Ranch. BELOW: Greg Newhall shows where Windy N Ranch grows barley, which is used as feed for animals.

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Kindergarten teacher Karen Foley demonstrates one of the learning games used on mobile devices by members of her kindergarten class at Lincoln Elementary School on March 11.

Teaching for their future Kittitas prepares for new wave of tech

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oell Boast has one goal for her students: she wants them to be creators, not consumers, of technology.

“We need to teach for their future, not our past,” she said.

Boast has been the district’s librarian for 15 years, and said there are a lot of opportunities at her library for students to create.

“I prefer to call them media labs, and they have a big role because that’s where you expose the teachers and the students, that’s where you can have a little bit more flexibility,” she said.

Boast wants kids to talk and create in her media lab, so she set aside a Makerspace room with several computers where students can come in and play Minecraft, or try their hand at assembling a robot.

During a recent lunch period at the school, students clicked and typed away at computers in the lab and Makerspace.

Kittitas Secondary Principal Del Heistand said technology in schools is about a strategic balance: the balance

between implementing ideas too fast and having teachers be comfortable with what they’re teaching.

“A conscious effort is going to be made to keep up with tech, or catching up to tech, so our kids are competitive when they leave Kittitas Secondary School to be truly successful in whatever they want to do,” Heistand said about the future of technology.

Heistand said the school will continue adding more tools to its Makerspace, like a 3-D printer. Boast hopes to add more Chromebook carts as well.

The Kittitas Secondary School has three Chromebook carts, each with about 26 Chromebooks. The laptops are used for testing, but teachers can check them out for their classrooms as well.

Since the Chromebook carts arrived at the school, Boast has been thinking of new ways of using them.

Boast used to teach Google apps, instructing third through fifth grade students how to make presentations, but now has to focus more on keyboarding.

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or many people, Twitter is a confusing world full of hashtags and @ symbols. Last year, kindergarten teacher Karen Foley decided to tackle the Twitter world head on. She now has 859 followers and sends out tweets daily.

Twitter has given Foley a way of reaching out to an evergrowing network of teachers who offer ideas on different teaching methods and activities. Foley has been incorporating new ideas about technology into her Lincoln Elementary School classroom since then, and has shared successful ideas on Twitter.

One of those ideas is Mystery Skype. Teachers across the nation, sometimes across the world, set up a time to Skype each other during the school day. Students draft a list of questions to ask the other classroom with the objective of finding out where they are in the world.

“I truly feel that getting the technology into the hands of the kids is empowering,” Foley said.

She said the game is a great way to work in a social studies component because the kids ask each other about nearby landmarks, mountains and rivers.

“You get to see that kindergarten is the same no matter where you’re at,” Foley said. Some kids, she said, don’t realize that there are

Reading time Foley also has been using Kindles for reading time.

“To them, they think it’s like a game rather than learning,” she said. “They don’t even realize that learning is happening.”

Students use Kindles that are preloaded with acceptable apps for their age level. With 15 minutes for free choice activity time, students have the option to pick up one of the three classroom Kindles and learn.

“The same person doesn’t pick it up every time,” Foley said. With an average attention span of seven minutes, the kids get bored easily.

“Some want different stations.”

Foley also has a Makerspace set up in her classroom tailored to the kindergarten level. The classroom Creation Station is where kids can bring their “recycled junk” and make things with it. As they get older, Foley said kids could add batteries and wiring to make their creations move.

Some parents are wary of having their kids use tablets for learning.

“My advice to them is that it is good as long as you’re targeting what the kiddos need, so whether it be handwriting, letter identification, numbers, whatever it is that the kids need, the best way to learn is through game,” she said.

The important part, she said, is to avoid apps that aren’t good. Foley put together a flier listing the best

educational apps and sent it home with her students. Foley learns about new apps through conferences like that National Council for Computer Education, and through blog posts authored by teachers. She uses them first before bringing them into the classroom.

“Is it just something to keep them busy? Because we don’t want that. We want them learning or exploring,” she said.

Apps help with logic-based learning, the alphabet, numbers and coding.

Examples include ABC Mouse, Monkey Pre-School, and the Foos.

Some apps, like Tellagami, allow students to record their voices over an animated person that the kids create. This work can later be posted to the classroom Twitter account, @ KinderKFoley, or to an app called SeeSaw that acts as an online portfolio of their class work.

Starting out with tech Foley has been teaching for eight years, with her first three years at Mount Stuart Elementary. She started out teaching second grade, but decided to teach kindergarten the following year. She’s been at Lincoln for five years now.

At the beginning of her teaching career in 2004, educators were only starting to learn how to make websites for their class. Students couldn’t interact with it, however. There wasn’t any Wi-Fi in her classroom, and she was in charge of hooking up the computers for students to use.

Lincoln teacher uses technology as a tool for youngest learners “It was really hard,” she said, so she did without technology for the first couple of years.

But then she started seeing new apps, and wanted to bring that technology into her classroom. She did not want to feel isolated in the middle of the state.

“I don’t want the kids to feel left out just because they grew up in a great, small town,” she said.

Parent groups from Mount Stuart, Lincoln and Valley View Elementary gathered to raise money to buy Kindles for kindergarten classrooms across the district. Kindles are cheaper than getting laptops and tablets, Foley said.

Her classroom is now up to two iPads, one of which was donated by a fundraising website, and two tablets.

Foley said she likes to see the variation between the three devices. At Lincoln, Foley said she’s the only one that uses them during reading time.

“It shouldn’t be a babysitter, but it should enhance their learning,” she said.

Foley emphasized that teachers are preparing students for jobs that don’t even exist yet.

“I know that whatever’s coming this way … we need to teach the kids as much as we can so that they’re adaptable, they know what they can use, how to use it, when to use it, why to use it, so we’re empowering them because that’s the only way,” she said.

“We really don’t know what the future is going to hold but we know it’s going to be vastly different.”

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Continued from Page 29 She wants to teach students how to use iMovie to make short videos and how to become more familiar with Twitter.

“I think that brings the community into the school,” she said. “How many people really know what’s going on in the school? Because they don’t read the newsletter, I don’t even read it.”

At the beginning of March, Boast was celebrating gaining 50 followers on the school Twitter, @KTownCoyotes. She posts Tweets about what students are doing throughout the school and encourages students to get involved.

Most recently, Boast was tweeting about a robotics competition where the county team took first place.

Kittitas has a new robotics class, taught by Rocky Gibson.

Catching up Students walking into business teacher Shelly Yenney’s class can learn about everything from coding to the Adobe Creative Suite to digital communication. Yenney, from Ephrata, joined the Kittitas School District two years ago with 33 years of experience. Boast called her a “game changer.”

During a recent visit, she was prepping a class on how to make apps.

“I’m hoping there’s something in the school that the kids can build an app for,” she said.

Yenney said that too often teachers are too afraid to step out

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Kindergarten teacher Karen Foley shows Sierra Foley and Kade Henry one of they learning games they can do on the mobile devices available to members of her kindergarten class at Lincoln Elementary School on March 11. of their comfort zones when it comes to technology. She thinks some people don’t quite get it yet that learning technology is so important.

“The stumbling block is teachers, teachers are too afraid,” she said.

“In the next 10 years hopefully we’ll get a wave of new teachers that are more tech savvy than some of the older ones.”

She said it was OK to tell students that you don’t know the answer.

“You go home and Google it and I’ll go home and Google it and hopefully one of us comes back

with an answer,” she said.

Yenney said that in a perfect world she would see laptops in everybody’s hands. The lab she teaches in has only 29 computers, and sometimes that’s not enough to accommodate every student.

But she remembers using typewriters when she started teaching three decades ago. Now, she said, students need to be taught digital citizenship.

“You’re writing your story right now,” she said, referencing social media. “With the pictures you post and the things you say.”

Kittitas Secondary School teacher Jody Quitadamo uses technology to teach what she calls a “hybrid class.”

“Technology is an integral part of the learning process in my classroom,” she said.

Quitadamo has taught social studies at Kittitas since 2006. Her students have a classroom website where they can check their assignments and take quizzes and tests. She said if she wanted to, she could teach the class remotely.

“I don’t have a crystal ball in front of me, but I think in five years we’re going to see a transition away from physical textbooks to digital media. We’re already seeing that trend, especially in secondary settings,” she said.

The hybrid part of her class still involves paper handouts, even though Quitadamo said she always uses technology.

“I’m old fashioned. I grew up in the textbook era, I still love flipping through pages. I don’t think that paper will completely go away, but I just think technology is going to become the norm,” Quitadamo said.

She would like to see a digital device for every student that could be checked out, just like a book. For Quitadamo, technology has also affected the way she teaches with the many tools available for teachers, from lesson plans to rubrics, all accessible online.

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