Educators within the Fort Dodge Community School District are attempting to make a stronger connection between school and home when it comes to how students are learning. Those connections are being accomplished through family engagement events. According to Stacey Cole, FDCSD director of student services, that’s because family involvement in...
February 6, 2018, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District is pleased to announce its students and employees of the month for November. This program recognizes one elementary, one middle school and one high school student, as well as one staff member monthly for exceeding expectations. Emma Estlund...
Chad Thompson Doug Van Zyl, who has served as superintendent of the Fort Dodge Community School District for the past eight years, has accepted the superintendent's job in the St. Joseph School District, St. Joseph, Missouri. The FDCSD and the SJSD made the announcement Thursday. "The board was delighted with...
Chad Thompson When Kwame Alexander, a poet and New York Times best-selling author, was 14 years old, he decided he wanted to be cool. Through poetry, Alexander found his cool and was able to attract a girl on whom he had a crush. "I loved poetry," Alexander said to a...
Veterans deserve respect. That’s according to Brady Major, 11, a fifth-grader at Fort Dodge Middle School. “You have to respect those that fought hard for everybody today,” he said. Major was one of about 20 students in Breah Ewing’s class creating valentines for local veterans Wednesday afternoon at the school....
The Fort Dodge Community School District is a step closer to having new elementary boundaries to start the 2018-19 school year. The board approved boundary option No. 2 at its meeting Monday night. "Over the years as buildings have been closed and repurposed and other facilities filled up we have...
Fort Dodge Senior High will be moving from a trimester schedule to a semester schedule for 2018-19 school year. Kenneth Hayes, FDSH principal, presented information related to the schedule change at the FDCSD board meeting Monday night. The board approved going forward with the schedule planning process. Hayes said the...
January 29, 2018, Fort Dodge, IA- Registration is taking place now for Kindergarten Roundup at the Fort Dodge Community School District. Kindergarten Roundup will take place March 5th-9th, varying by building. The Roundup schedule is as follows with students with last names beginning with A-L attending from 9-10:45 a.m. and...
When the interactive art piece “Cabinet of Obsolescence” by Los Angeles artists Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues was installed just outside the auditorium at the Fort Dodge Middle School in July 2017, there was something missing. It needed some obsolete items in the eight illuminated, glass-faced display cabinets that comprise...
January 24, 2018, Fort Dodge, IA- Over 60 Fort Dodge Senior High students prepared 21 entries for the Iowa High School Speech Association District Large Group Speech Contest held January 20 in Storm Lake. Eleven Fort Dodge Senior High speech groups received Division I ratings and will move on to...
