Staff Spotlight: Brent Petermeier and Nathan Schutz

Petermeier and Schutz

Madison Elementary School has a dynamic duo, Brent Petermeier and Nathan Schutz. Both are behavioral support specialists (BSS) which means they modify teaching styles to provide intervention for students with significant social, emotional and/or behavioral needs. They work together in partnership with teachers to provide support to specialized instruction for students with individual education plans. … Read more

Alumni Success Story: Amber Brennan

Honorable Judge Brennan

Exciting news for Apollo High School alumna Amber Brennan! (Class of 1988) Governor Tim Walz recently appointed her to the Fourth Circuit Judicial District bench in Minnesota, a position that she greatly looks forward to, but never imagined, while attending St. Cloud Area School District 742. While in high school, Brennan knew she wanted to … Read more

It’s Dance Party Season!

Prom dresses

It’s time for the biggest dance party of the year–prom! When high school students create elaborate “promposals.” When guys look for the latest designs in tuxes and girls the most fashionable dresses. Over the years, however, Apollo High School and Tech High School have seen a decline in prom attendance. School administrators say that part … Read more

Staff Spotlight: North Junior High School’s Eglantina Cenolli

Cenolli with a student

Dr. Eglantina Cenolli, EL (English Language) and mathematics teacher at North Junior High School, would say teaching is in her blood. Her parents, aunts, uncles and most of her sisters are all teachers. She considered becoming a medical doctor. However, civil war in her home country of Albania prevented travel to acquire a medical education. … Read more

Apollo Student Uses Poetry to Learn English

Mengue with her parents

Anne Mengue is a new-to-country Apollo High School freshman who has impressed her EL (English Language) teacher and administration with her poetry skills. She’s one of the recent winners of Apollo’s Black History Month Writing Competition. Mengue moved to St. Cloud from Cameroon, Africa in August. She was very excited to start school. In Cameroon, … Read more