Studies show that teaching and learning a second language is most efficiently accomplished the earlier we start. With that in mind, is the current education model that introduces second-language education in high school the best model for Minot students and School District resources? [candidate_quotes question=”2018_sb_q8″]
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Picture a school called the Johnson Farm School. It’s basically a barn. Inside, Albert Einstein is teaching students. He’s as good at teaching as he is at physics. Now imagine another school called Central District Immaculate. It is basically a cathedral of education. Inside, Abe Pitchman is teaching students. He’s three years from retirement and
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What metrics do you use to measure the performance of Minot Public Schools and how do we compare to the other large districts in the state? Is there data or information not available that you’d like to see added to our toolbox? [candidate_quotes question=”2018_sb_q6″]
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Cursive writing — is it a critical or antiquated part of elementary school curriculum and how well does this practice align with the School District’s mission to “empower learners to succeed in a changing world”? [candidate_quotes question=”2018_sb_q5″]
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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? [candidate_quotes question=”2018_sb_q4″]
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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 school. With that in mind, What’s the downside to building on the easy
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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 mission and realizing our vision? [candidate_quotes question=”2018_sb_q2″]
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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 participating School Board candidate’s brief thoughts on a Minot community and School District
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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 changes. How those impact us locally is yet to be determined, but the
Read & Share sourced from: EdSurgeFor 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 ‘whole child development’, and the story of their successful turnaround is worth reading.
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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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