As part of its mission, St. Cloud Area School District prepares and empowers students to lead a successful life. That mission expands this year at Apollo High School with a new career and college pathways coordinator, Alisha Lacina. It’s her job to assist freshmen and sophomores to prepare for life after high school, and she’s … 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
One of the goals of Tech High School during the 2020-21 school year is to create a greater sense of community. It’s especially difficult in a time when students are distance learning. Yet, staff and students alike have taken on the challenge and met it with great success. One of the ways they have created … Read more
Madison Elementary School’s special education teacher Celeste Hains didn’t plan on being a teacher. In fact, she was a social worker who was working on her marriage and family therapy license. It was her son’s principal, Kate Butkowski, who approached her about substitute teaching for St. Cloud Area School District. Hains gave it a try, … Read more
This year, Apollo High School celebrates its 50th anniversary. Brand new in the fall of 1970, the school boasted innovative ideas and curriculum as well as a contemporary building design. Over many decades, the idea that high school students could create their own modular schedules tailored to their own interests endured. It was a pioneering … Read more