Staff Spotlight: Summer (Chengying) Yang-Farmerie

Summer Yang-Farmerie

Becoming a kindergarten Chinese immersion teacher at Madison Elementary School was the furthest thing from Summer Yang-Farmerie’s mind while growing up in China. Yang-Farmerie grew up in western China and began learning English in middle school, but she never dreamed she’d be teaching her native language as an adult. “When I went to college,” says … Read more

Introducing Pathways Coordinator Alisha Lacina

Lacina and her family

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 Academy in Virtual Motion

Distance Learning student

During this global pandemic, education nationwide has been re-envisioned and recreated. The summer of 2020 became a period of focused planning for St. Cloud Area School District 742 administrators and educators who learned from the sudden shift to online learning the previous spring. They sourced the good outcomes of the spring’s experiences and built upon … Read more

Students “Hang Out” on Social Meets

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

The Future of Teachers Looks Bright

FTA students with President Wacker

The future of new teachers has never looked so bright thanks to the Future Teacher Academy (FTA) at St. Cloud Area School District.  The academy is a program that provides opportunities to explore college and a career as a future educator to students of color. The program is in its second year. Mohamed Mohamud, educational … Read more