Ellen Stewart, director of equity services for St. Cloud Area School District, has a story she likes to tell about being a child in North Minneapolis. For as far back as she can remember, she taught school in her backyard for the neighborhood kids. Every day, she’d line up lawn chairs and teach all day long … Read more
Concerned about the health hazards of vaping, North Junior High and Apollo High School students, Fatuma Hassan, Nathan Nichelson and Quynn Meister have worked two years on Don’t Juul, It’s Not Cuul!!!, their Community Problem Solving (CmPS) project, an anti-vaping campaign with resources, curriculum and marketing ideas. CmPS encourages students to become “agents of change in … Read more
Distance learning can create challenges in education not only academically, but socially. However, St. Cloud Area School District‘s middle schools, North Junior High School, South Junior High School and Kennedy Community School along with the Distance Learning Academy (DLA), have figured out a creative way for students to connect. It’s called Social Meets, a slotted … Read more
After 33 years with St. Cloud Area School District, Principal Sheri Rutar from Clearview Elementary School is retiring. It isn’t the retirement she imagined. The remainder of the school year has presented its challenges with COVID-19 for Rutar and her team. It’s been quite the ride navigating distance learning while transitioning the hand-off to a … Read more
Guest Written by Apollo Senior Janeel Denson-Byers Today marks the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. Elementary school, middle school, high school and all the activities in between were stepping stones to this moment. Each moment, each stone is different for every one of us. Our journey to this moment is unique, terrifying, … Read more
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