Kudos

• To Lydia Faith Wiersma who checked in at 7 lbs 8 oz. Mom and daughter are doing very well.
• To Deb Rozeboom and the hot lunch crew for an excellent report from the nutrition site visit Tuesday
• The boys and girls soccer teams who debut this past week in Sioux Center High School’s first ever soccer competition
• All of the great Kinsey staff that helped to cover or offered to cover classes so staff could go visit other schools this past week and next week!
• To the Sioux Center High School Men’s Quartet (Andrew De Jongh, Aaron Van Beek, Ty Lassen, Matthew Bruxvoort) received Outstanding Performance last Saturday at Solo & Ensemble Contest. 
• To Mr. Landegent and all of the students involved with putting on a great performance at Kinsey on Thursday night!

Teens and Social Media

Grant Willits, Middle School Counselor, shared the following link with me.

Teens and Social Media

Late Start

Sioux Center Schools are two hours late today. Includes Sioux Center Christian.  No AM Transitional Kindergarten

HS Solo/Ensemble cancelled

HS Solo/Ensemble Pre-Contest Recital for tonight has been cancelled

Kudos

    

   

   

   

    «  To All-State Individual Speech qualifier Courtney Woelber who will be performing her poetry selections at the Individual Speech All-State Festival on Monday, March 31, at UNI.

    «  To the Middle School Show Choir Breakout received Grand Champions in the Middle School division (including 1A-4A) and received Best Vocals at Westwood..

    «  To the High School Show Choir – 2nd in 3A at Lewis Central and 2nd in 2A at Westwood.

    «  To Todd Arends, 2014 Iowa Sports Spotlight Iowa High School Boys Basketball 2A Coach of the Year

    «  To Andrew O’Donnell Iowa Newspaper Association Class 2A All-State basketball 2^nd team

    «  To Alex Bakker 2014 IowaPreps.com All State Basketball 2^nd Team

A better way to student teach

Two Iowa colleges have been chosen to collaborate with the Iowa Department of Education on a pilot project designed to explore whether there are better ways to deliver the educational experience to student teachers.

The University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and Dordt College in Sioux Center will share in a $1 million allocation from the Iowa Legislature to pilot an expansion of the student teaching program to a year-long experience. Student teachers in Iowa currently train for 14 consecutive weeks.

“Iowa produces very good teachers,” said Iowa Department of Education’s Larry Bice, an administrative consultant for educator preparation. “This pilot is an examination of ways that could make them even better.”

Read more about the program by clicking here.

Game Postponed

Boys substate Basketball Game for tonight has been postponed to Monday night.