In your opinion, is the culture of Minot Public Schools education and our distribution of resources tilted more towards arts and humanities or sports and athletics? Is that the proper balance, and if not, how do you go about equalizing the imbalance?[...]
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School Board Candidates Comment on a Hypothetical Second High School
Let’s assume all signs point to continued growth in Minot and the obvious decision is to build a new high school. The voters approve it. Your job is to defend a position you may not agree with on where to locate the[...]
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School Board Candidates Comment on the School District Mission and Vision
The Minot Public School District’s mission: Empower all learners to succeed in a changing world. The vision: Assuring learning for life-long success. Are our mission and vision statements capturing the needed scope of work and how are we doing at accomplishing our[...]
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School Board Candidates Comment on a School District Self Assessment
The first of The Minot Voice’s Minot School Board election coverage begins with an executive summary SWOT. SWOT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and the analysis is used to help organizations begin a self-assessment. Below you’ll find each[...]
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K-12 Policy Updates: Mandatory Fall Reading for Every Education Entrepreneur
When it comes to Education directives handed down from on high (the feds), there’s a new Sheriff in town who goes by the name of Betsy Devos. Her confirmation was controversial, and the one thing that’s certain — there will be policy[...]
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The Story One Elementary School Reinventing itself
For one elementary school in New Hampshire, the status quo was no longer an option. Plummeting test scores, high staff turnover, low morale, and an ongoing community opioid crisis were creating challenges in the classroom. The solution was what is described as[...]
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Good Talk Minot #4: Fleshing out the Water Balloon Debacle
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[...]
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New digital citizenship curriculum is an idea worth copying
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[...]
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Bismarck High School Solves IT Challenges with Tech Club
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[...]
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Minot area needs up to $400 million for water projects
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[...]
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ND teacher talks on technology in education at Twitter headquarters
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[...]
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Central Campus Career Fair hosts more than 100 professionals from community
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. [...]Read More... from Central Campus[...]
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Kirsten Baesler: A Vision for North Dakota’s Schools
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. [...]Read More...[...]
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Listen: Old-Ramstad School Site a Priority for Disaster Resilience Funding
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,[...]
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2016 Election: Meet Your Minot Public Schools School Board Candidates
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[...]
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School Board Approves Attendance Line Map, Sets Policy for Exceptions
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. [...]Read More... from School Board Approves Attendance[...]