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Matthew Steen Named New Associate Principal at MIHS
MISD Board Meeting Recap – June 11, 2025
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2025-26 Enrollment and Staffing Update From Superintendent Rundle
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Message From New Lakeridge Principal Jennifer Cleaves
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Successes and Celebrations of the first year of MI Phone-Free Schools
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Welcome to Mercer Island School District
Values, Vision, & Mission
Values
Students are the priority. We believe in:
• Supporting the whole child
• Creating inclusive and equitable learning settings
• Ensuring our school communities are safe and supportive
• Providing rigorous and challenging learning
Vision
Inspiring our students to be lifelong learners as they create their futures.
Mission
The District will foster learning by engaging students in thinking critically, solving problems creatively, and working collaboratively.
Message From Superintendent Rundle
District News
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The Mercer Island School District is pleased to announce Matthew Steen has been selected as a new associate principal at Mercer Island High School.
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From the distractions eliminated in teaching and learning environments to the data in our annual Education Effectiveness Survey (EES) to the visible positive student interactions in both schools, the new program is an unqualified success.
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There were 3 items on the agenda for this meeting.
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Spring is a season of both celebration and preparation — a time to honor the accomplishments of the current school year while carefully planning for the next
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Nine Mercer Island Destination Imagination teams recently participated in the Global Finals tournament in Kansas City, Missouri and performed extremely well.
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My name is Jennifer Cleaves, and I am honored to introduce myself as your new principal. I bring 28 years of experience in public education—as a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator in both Washington and Colorado—and most recently served as principal of Finn Hill Middle School and the Environmental and Adventure School in Lake Washington School District.
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