Bellevue Discovery Family Partnership Launching in 2025-2026
In the 2025-2026 school year, Bellevue School District will open the Bellevue Discovery Family Partnership. This program will offer robust in-person classes, be a community hub for enrolled families, and incorporate the existing Bellevue Digital Discovery elementary school to offer flexible online learning options in addition to campus-based classes. This program supports and complements home-based education undertaken by parents and guardians.
Attend the February 5, 2025, online information session, to learn about the program.
Collaborating to Bring an Idea into Reality
This program was inspired by two parents in the local homeschooling community, who met with Superintendent Aramaki in February of 2023 to express support for a parent partnership program in the Bellevue School District. A committee of parents, teachers and school district staff worked over the next 18 months to bring this program into reality. During a time of deep budget challenges, an opportunity to partner with the existing Bellevue Digital Discovery elementary school became clear. This connection will offer online opportunities through the partnership and increase community connections for Digital Discovery students and families, as well as leverage existing district resources to offer an exciting and much-desired program to meet the needs of students and families requiring greater educational flexibility.
Goals for 2025-2026
One of the parents at our community listening session said, “Even if it’s small, please start something so people know it’s possible and available.” We agree with this sentiment, and we firmly believe that this program will grow.
Our enrollment goal to open in 2025-2026 is 100 total students. This number will include students who are fully online, fully in-person, or who choose classes from both menus. You don’t have to decide at the time of enrollment what blend of in-person and online classes to take; you’ll have flexibility and support in choosing a pathway that works for your student and your family.
Help Us Shape the Future of the Family Partnership
We invite you to join us as a founding family to co-create the broader offerings of this program over the next 3-5 years. Families and students will work alongside teachers to bring their hopes and dreams for learning options into the world. It will be small these first few years as we learn, but by sharing our collective talents in community, we will create the best possible program for our students and families.
The partnership program gives me, as a parent, the flexibility to create a customized approach for my child’s individualized learning goals by offering an innovative blend of home-based and in-person classes. I can be very creative in how I help them with the challenges they face that make a traditional classroom difficult. I’m grateful I will have support from certificated teachers and other families in this program, and I’m excited to be co-creating a deeply supportive community of people who embrace the possibility of alternative education to meet unique student needs.
-Nicole Nash, founding family member of the Bellevue Discovery Family Partnership
Visit the Bellevue Discovery Family Partnership webpage for more details about the new program, including frequently asked questions.
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