Hiteon Highlights Newsletter

🌸 Principal Message

🌸 2025 - 2026 Parent Input Form

🌸 Staff Appreciation Week 5/5-5/9

🌸 FUN RUN 5/14

🌸 4th Grade Musical 5/22

🌸 Bike to School Week

🌸 School Supply Kit Orders

🌸 5th Graders Pay It Forward

🌸 TOO SICK FOR SCHOOL GUIDELINES

🌸 Kindergarten Enrollment Open

🌸 Hiteon's May School Calendar

🌸 PTC Corner

🌸 Volunteers Needed for 25-26 school year

🌸 Community Events

🌸 Special Education Resource Fair 5/27

🌸 Beaverton City Library Spring Events

🌸 BPD Summer Camp

Greetings, Hiteon Community,

Last week’s parent-teacher conferences were a wonderful opportunity to connect, celebrate student growth, and partner together in support of each child’s learning journey. Thank you to all the families who took the time to meet with our teachers. These conversations play a vital role in strengthening the home-school connection and supporting student success.

As we look ahead, some exciting events still bring our Hiteon community together in fun and meaningful ways. Our much-anticipated Fun Run is just around the corner—a favorite event where students, staff, and families join in a high-energy celebration of movement, school spirit, and teamwork. Not long after, we’ll gather again for Field Day, a time-honored tradition full of games, laughter, and outdoor fun.

None of these events would be possible without the incredible dedication of our Parent Teacher Club (PTC) and our amazing volunteers. Whether organizing events, setting up activities, or cheering on students, our PTC and volunteers go above and beyond to make Hiteon a vibrant, welcoming place. Their hard work behind the scenes brings joy and memorable experiences to our students, and we are so grateful.

Thank you to everyone who continues to help make Hiteon Elementary such a special school community. Your time, energy, and heart make all the difference!

Janet Maza, Principal

Jenny Read-Emslie, Assistant Principal

Deadline: Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

2025-2026 Parent Feedback Form

The placement of children in classrooms for the next school year is a decision of great importance. We invite you to participate in this process. Your child's present teacher(s) have current information and insight about the conditions under which your child learns best. Classroom Teachers, Specialists, and our Administrative Team meet to place students for the following year. As we work together to organize the new classes, we use many factors to create optimal class groups.

Class groups are balanced by gender as well as the strengths and needs of students. Additionally, teachers balance classes by Special Education needs, English as a Second Language needs, and academic needs. Teachers also look at the behavioral needs of students. With all of this considered, we also attempt to balance class groups by size whenever possible.

Please fill out the Parent Input Form if you would like to provide feedback on this process. The information will be shared with your child's current teacher. Parent input and information are only one factor and does not guarantee placement with a specific teacher. Please do not request a specific teacher. A great deal of time and effort goes into this process, and each child is individually considered and placed. Your input will be paired with input provided by your child's current teacher(s) when building balanced classes for the 2025-2026 school year.

In completing this form, please describe the kind of classroom environment in which your child functions best. This is crucial due to the unknowns that also enter the student placement process, such as
1) Reassignment of teachers within the building due to enrollment changes or teachers' wishes,
2) Teachers transferring to other Beaverton schools due to overstaffing or teacher requests, and
3) Staffing changes due to teacher moves or hiring!

Our goal for every child is to place them in a classroom where they can thrive academically, emotionally, and socially.

We encourage you to complete the form if you have information that would help us in your child's placement. The form is due back by Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Regards, Janet Maza (Principal) and Jenny Read-Emslie (Assistant Principal)

2025-2026 Parent Feedback Form

The 2025 Fun Run is coming up on Wednesday May 14th and there's nowhere we'd rather be than celebrating with you and your students because it's Hiteon's 50th Birthday Fun Run!!

What's on the birthday to-do list? Just a few things.

Register on Pledgestar: It's free! To register, click here or go to please go to http://pledgestar.com/hiteon. This is your gateway to fundraising and if we get 70% registration, the students earn a Comfy, Cozy Movie Day!

Sign Up to Volunteer: This is our biggest event of the year so please take a look at the volunteer shifts to see if you can help. There are lots of shifts available throughout the day so choose your adventure!

Sign up in Raptor at https://bit.ly/raptorhptc or by contacting the Hiteon Volunteer Coordinator at volcoord@hiteon.ptc.org.

Get Pledges: The deadline for getting Fun Run pledges is Friday May 23rd so reach out to your friends, neighbors and family now to see if they would be willing to pledge money for your student for a great cause.

Questions? Let us know! info@hiteonptc.org

Bike to School Week is NEXT WEEK! Be sure to fill up your tires this weekend so you can participate. Throughout the week we will have a “bike fairy” leaving prizes on parked bikes, scooters, or any other wheels found in the racks.

Monday May 5th: Join the Hiteon Bike Bus - we'll ride on the bike trail from 130th (by Southridge) to and from school with parent volunteer supervision. We'll meet at 7:15am and depart by 7:20am. See attached map for route information. Families are welcome to join or drop off.

We'll meet at the back of the school (look for the bike bus sign) for the return trip home at 2:20. Estimated arrival back at 130th is 2:40pm.

Wednesday May 7th: Let's add some wheels to our weekly Hiteon Walking School Bus! You can walk OR bike with us on our weekly route from Wildhorse Mini Park - with parent volunteer supervision of course. Meet at 7:15am and depart by 7:20am.

We hope that you join in on the fun and use this as a chance to see how enjoyable active transportation in the spring can be!

Questions? Email info@hiteonptc.org

Can you please set up a ParentSquare blast to announce supply kits. Today would be great if possible, otherwise Monday would work too. Thank you

As the school is winding down it's time to start thinking about next year! One simple step you can do to prepare for next year is to order your student's supplies now, and the best part is, they will be waiting in your child's classroom on the night of Meet your Teacher in August.

The kits contain all the items needed for your student for next year (with one small exception for Kindergarten) Full itemized lists will be posted to the Hiteon website soon.

Questions? Please reach out to Keaghan Cronin -

Keaghan.cronin@gmail.com OR Nancy Henry - charlotte1979@hotmail.com

5th graders Pay It Forward! They are flooding the library with book recommendations they loved reading in their years at Hiteon! Now, K-4th get to come in and pick a book to read and love too.

We want to remind parents of the BSD guidelines for keeping students home if they are not feeling well. Below are posters with information for the common illness we see at school. You can also visit the BSD website for more information

Kindergarten enrollment is now open for the

2025 - 2026 school year.

Please let your family, friends, and neighbors who live in the Hiteon

attendance area to enroll their children if they will be 5 years old by September 1st.

We're excited to welcome all our newest Kindergarten Hawks.

May 26 - Memorial Day

If you haven’t done so already, please reapply to be a volunteer in the Beaverton School District. We’re implementing a new volunteer management system over the summer and need time to process and complete the criminal background checks for all applicants.

Start on the Volunteer webpage on the district website. The entire process — including the review of the Child Abuse Prevention & Reporting and Adult Sexual Misconduct training materials — should take less than 10 minutes to complete.

Thank you for prioritizing our students’ safety and for your willingness to volunteer in BSD.

It’s data collection time again for Beaverton’s Safe Routes to School program. The purpose of this program is to make walking and biking to school safe, convenient, and fun.

Parents’ and guardians’ input into how students travel to and from schools and their impression of the safety of the route is valuable as the city and county prioritize needed improvements for our roads.

The following links will take you to a district survey and will be combined with classroom tallies to give us a good picture of how students get to and from schools throughout the district.

The district survey will be open for responses for approximately four weeks from May 1st until May 31st. We appreciate your assistance providing us information to make the Safe Routes to School program effective for all Beaverton School District students.

Beaverton Rutas Seguras a la Escuela: Encuestas para Padres

Es hora de recopilar datos nuevamente para el programa Rutas Seguras a la Escuela de Beaverton. El propósito de este programa es hacer que caminar y andar en bicicleta a la escuela sea seguro, conveniente y divertido.

La opinión de los padres y tutores legales sobre cómo viajan los estudiantes hacia y desde las escuelas y su impresión de la seguridad de la ruta es valiosa ya que la ciudad y el condado priorizan las mejoras necesarias para nuestras carreteras.

Los siguientes enlaces lo llevarán a una encuesta del distrito y se combinarán con los recuentos del salón de clases para darnos una buena idea de cómo los estudiantes van y vienen de las escuelas de todo el distrito.

La encuesta del distrito estará abierta para recibir respuestas por cuatro semanas desde el 1 de mayo hasta el 31 de mayo. Agradecemos su ayuda en brindarnos información para hacer que el programa de Rutas Seguras a la Escuela sea efectivo para todos los estudiantes del Distrito Escolar de Beaverton.

Survey Links:

English https://forms.office.com/r/HXtt3QWnqA

Español https://forms.office.com/r/0AwWm7hGch

اللغة†العربي†ة https://forms.office.com/r/bdYbuFDuD2

中文 https://forms.office.com/r/iZ8DjFEQ2f

日本語 https://forms.office.com/r/zU0bHx0Zca

한국어 https://forms.office.com/r/5zjWhNw54X

Русский https://forms.office.com/r/2xj6fFB8vP

Soomaali https://forms.office.com/r/Jju0HSgUWR

Tiếng Việt https://forms.office.com/r/dWeDDCv12F

Leah Biado (she/her)
Safe Routes to School Coordinator

Follow us @BeavertonSafeRoutes

BSD is seeking volunteers to serve on an expanded Long-Range Facility Planning Committee. The committee will advise the superintendent on issues such as long-range facilities plans, facility condition assessments and future bond planning. The committee provides consensus recommendations but does not make decisions concerning district facilities and related topics.

The current committee was seated in February 2024. The district is seeking additional members to have a total of two committee members from each board zone. The two members in each zone will be selected from different elementary school attendance boundary areas, when possible. Applicants may not be current district employees, board members, vendors, contractors or consultants for the district.

The district is seeking applicants who demonstrate:

• Commitment to sustained volunteer engagement.
• Good reputation in the community for fairness and transparency.
• Ability to focus on the best interests of the district and community as a whole.

To apply, please complete the online application. You’ll be asked to include your resume. The deadline to apply is Monday, May 5 at 5 p.m.

Applicants will be notified whether they have been appointed to the committee on Tuesday, May 13. The first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 28. Meetings will typically be held monthly except during the summer.

Families are invited to join us for the BSD Special Education Resource Fair on Monday, May 27 from 4:30–8:00 p.m. at the District Support Center (16550 SW Merlo Rd, Beaverton).

Come and connect with local organizations, explore helpful tools and services, and learn more about supports available for your child and family. The event includes hands-on learning stations and a wide range of community resources.

We hope to see you there!

Did you know, you can use your student library card to unlock…videos?

About Kanopy

Access over 30,000 streaming movies, animated storybooks, shows, and documentaries with your library card! With 20 play credits a month, and unlimited videos on Kanopy Kids, there is always something to watch and no ads. Kanopy videos are available to stream on a variety of devices at any time day or night.

¿Sabía que puede ver vídeos con su tarjeta de biblioteca para estudiantes?

Sobre Kanopy

Acceda a más de 30.000 películas, libros de cuentos animados, programas y documentales con su tarjeta de la biblioteca. Con 20 créditos de reproducción al mes y vídeos ilimitados en Kanopy Kids, siempre hay algo que ver y sin anuncios. Los vídeos de Kanopy se pueden ver una gran variedad de dispositivos a cualquier hora del día o noche.

Janet Maza, Principal

Hiteon’s Mission Statement

Hiteon is a community dedicated to providing an educational experience in which everyone can reach their full potential and make positive societal contributions. We strive to enhance personal, community, and global identities while developing life-long learners.

Email: janet_maza@beaverton.k12.or.us
Website: https://hiteon.beaverton.k12.or.us/
Location: 13800 Southwest Brockman Road, Beaverton, OR, USA
Phone: 503-356-2140