July 23, 2018, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District in collaboration with the Fort Dodge Schools Foundation, will host a Meet and Greet with Dr. Jesse Ulrich, the new superintendent, Thursday, August 2, from 7:00 – 7:40 a.m. at the new Duncombe Elementary, 1620 6th Avenue North....
June 19, 2018, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District is moving to an online student registration process for the 2018-19 school year. Registration for returning students must be completed online between July 2-27. Parents/guardians must have an Infinite Campus parent account to complete the registration process. Parents/guardians...
There’s some very talented students attending the Fort Dodge Middle School. Some of them sing, some of them play instruments, some of them do magic tricks and few tell jokes. One of them can solve the Rubik’s Cube in no time. Degan Klindt, 14, an eighth-grader at the school, demonstrated...
Like they did on most days, the halls of Duncombe Elementary School echoed with the happy noise of students going about their day. Learning, laughing, talking to each other and laughing more at something silly on the way to a different class or lunch. Once the last student had left...
Sixth-graders from Fort Dodge Middle School helped prepare the Webster County Fairgrounds Monday afternoon for upcoming festivities to be held there as part of the fair. Painting tires for figure 8 races and mulching trees were a couple of the tasks students completed as part of a community service project....
Half of the gym at Butler Elementary School got to serve yet another purpose Wednesday. Thanks to the work of reading teacher Stephanie Harvey, it became a book store. Sort of. The students browsing the tables of new books didn’t have to pay for them. Harvey organized the event to...
The students of Fort Dodge Senior High have been running long and hard to earn the caps and gowns of this Sunday’s graduation ceremony. Some of that running has been literal for seniors preparing for the big day. The day before they walked across the stage, Hannah Reynoso and her...
John Newman and Tom McClimon both became teachers because of strong male influences they had in their lives growing up. “As I look through my life, some of the most influential people were male role models, either teachers or coaches in school,” McClimon said. Newman found his role model when...
As children make their way through school, there’s a strong chance that a local treatment center has educated them about the dangers of drug abuse, including opioid abuse. Community and Family Resources, with the help of a grant, visits area schools and offers a variety of programs for the students...
As a large group of kindergarten students from Feelhaver and Duncombe elementary schools gathered in a circle around a tree set in a freshly dug hole at the Fort Dodge Middle School Thursday morning, Fort Dodge Community School District Superintendent Doug Van Zyl asked them all a simple question. “Why...
