After two tours in Iraq and Bosnia, Shelby Hadley, a former McKinley Area Learning Center student and 1997 Apollo High School graduate, has found her passion and niche as a vocational rehabilitation specialist for the St. Cloud Veterans Hospital. Her primary responsibility is to assess veterans returning from deployment in order to transition them into … Read more
Any good educator will tell you that service learning is an effective way to connect students to learning goals while engaging them in their surrounding community. And nearly all students who have participated in service learning will tell you that it is a meaningful experience that truly makes an impact. But few can boast a … Read more
Listening to Our Stories “Now more than ever,” says poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, “literature matters.” That piece of wisdom may seem likely to fall on deaf ears of the average high school student, but 21 students from the Alternative Learning Center (ALC) in St. Cloud became active listeners at the recent pre-conference workshop led by … Read more