In episode #4 of The Good Talk Minot, Jonah Lantto of The Good Talk Network and I discuss the now-in-the-past water balloon debacle of 2017. If you’re unfamiliar with the incident, you can get a refresher from this Minot Daily article. The conversation helped me flesh out my thinking on the topic. Here’s where I landed:
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Here in North Dakota, we occasionally dismiss outside ideas — particularly those from more liberal-leaning parts of the country — because those places don’t identify as closely with our values. Sometimes that’s good; sometimes that’s bad. The story below comes from the Washington state, and it’s absolutely an outside idea that we should be appropriating. Technology
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Bismarck’s Legacy High School is on the newer end of the spectrum, but it’s not just the building that has a different feel — there’s also some new approaches to education. One example, instead of employing an IT staff to take care school’s computers and tech hardware, they’ve insourced the job directly to students. The
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Between flood protection and NAWS, water-related infrastructure is what we’re going to be paying for Minot for a while. Minot’s Liasion Committee met yesterday, and among the discussion, pieces was how we’re going to meet our financial obligations on these projects. Jill Schramm with the Minot Daily News has the story.
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Kayla Delzer, A 3rd-grade teacher in Mapleton, is taking tech integration to new places in teaching, and for her efforts, she was invited to speak at a Digital Citizenship Summit at Twitter headquarters in San Fransisco. Here’s the quote you should remember about education today, “Sixty-five percent of today’s schoolchildren will be employed in jobs
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For the 14th year in a row, Central Campus held their career fair. The event brought more than a hundred presenters into the school to give students a chance to hear about different career and vocational choices.
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North Dakota’s Superintendant of School’s provides a brief update on the state’s progress with the Every Student Succeeds Act. As a result of the legislation, the expectation is for more local control and less emphasis on academic standards and testing.
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In January, the City of Minot was awarded ~$74 million through the Housing and Urban Development’s National Disaster Resilience Competition. Since the award announcement, the City has been patiently awaiting federal guidance as to which parts of our competition application were funded, and as of the June 21 Park Board meeting, it seems the City
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This coming Tuesday is an election day across North Dakota. For state offices, this is a standard primary election whereby we narrow the field down to the final candidates who will appear on the November ballot. But for local races, this is it. This is your only chance to cast a vote for our City
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At Thursday’s regularly scheduled School Board meeting, the board approved the committee-recommended map with a few small changes and set the policy for providing exceptions. Read the story by entering through a Google search page.
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An updated attendance lines map has been posted by Minot Public Schools. No other accompanying news released. This is the map that the parents committee recommended following last month’s public forum that was used gather feedback on the initial draft. The next School Board meeting is Thursday, March 3rd, at which presumably, this map will
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The 2016-17 school year will see adjustments to the school district map that guides which schools kids attend. The proposed draft of the map is available to the public, and tonight ant Erik Ramstad Middle School the School District will hold a public forum on the map. If you have a strong opinion on the
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South of Minot there’s a new school open on the prairie and now attending for the first time in a long time — high school students. KMOT has the story that includes video of the new addition to South Prairie school.
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The changes in the oil industry see students both coming and going in oil patch school districts. Overall, the start of the 2015 school year will tell the story on what enrollment looks like. Get the story from KMOT News.
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Construction on the Perkett school expansion is ahead of schedule and looks to be finished in the fall of 2016. The expansion was part of a $39.5 million bond package passed in 2014 that includes many expansions and improvements in the district.
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Tracey Lawson, previously the principal at Longfellow Elementary, has been hired as Minot Public School’s Assistant Superintendent for elementary education. Minot Daily has the story along with other business of the school board. This article requires a Google search redirect to bypass the MDN paywall.
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