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  • Welcome Back Site Visits Began Today Monday, August 30, 2010

    Hundreds of staff and guests turned out today for the first three Welcome Back site visits. Superintendent Sandy Lewandowski greeted staff and guests this morning at Northwest Tech Center and Edgewood Education Center (see photo above).

    This afternoon, Superintendent  Lewandowski was joined by School Board Member, Michèle Kunz, at the Sandburg Education Center where staff has been settling into new rooms following a summer move from the former Hosterman Building.

    Welcome Back site visits continue tomorrow.
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010

    8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Bren Road Ed Center
    1:30 - 3:00 p.m.  South Ed Center
    For addresses and maps, click here.

    All DSC, Itinerant, Campus, VET and ALC staff not located at one of the centers, should select an event that fits your schedule. Please contact your supervisor if you have questions about which session to attend.

  • Welcome Back Events Begin Monday Thursday, August 26, 2010

    Monday, August  30, 2010
    9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Northwest Tech Center
    10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Edgewood Ed Center
    1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Sandburg
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010
    8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Bren Road Ed Center
                                  1:30 - 3:00 p.m.  South Ed Center

    For addresses, click here.

    All DSC, Itinerant, campus, VET and ALC staff not located at one of the centers, should select an event that fits your schedule. Please contact your supervisor if you have questions about which session to attend.

  • District 287 Awarded Four Grants Tuesday, August 17, 2010

    District 287 is starting new school year with four substantial grants from our community partners.

    From the Minnesota State Arts Board, District 287 will receive a $16,250 award for the Arts Learning Project for the Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project. Performance Artist Perrin Boyd will provide a series of performance art residencies with Sandburg Education Center students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.  A second year will be awarded for 2011-2012, but is dependent on positive year one outcomes.

    Edgewood Education Center has been notified of a Target Corporation Award for the Drum Up Connections. The $2,000 award will sponsor an African Drummer who will facilitate drumming as the artistic medium by working on communication, cooperation and interaction with students who present with emotional/behavioral problems and developmental/cognitive problems. This is the second year of Drum Up Connections at Edgewood See video story.

    Medica Foundation is awarding $27,050 to the Sandburg Education Center for the Children Learning and Improving Boundaries (Climb) Curriculum. This Sexual Behavioral Health Prevention Project will include group and individual services provided by Village Ranch Children & Family Service Staff to improve interpersonal boundaries, personal safety and appropriate sexual behavior in the school setting.

    The largest of the four grants is $300,000 from the Federal Elementary School Based Mental Health Program. This is year three of the District Elementary School Based Mental Health Project. This project offers ongoing mental health support by way of individual & family therapy, staff consultation, psychiatric consultation, medication management and school counselor services to elementary aged students and families. During the past two years, it has been located at Hosterman and has moved with students and staff to Sandburg Education Center.

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