March 4, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- Fort Dodge Senior High students prepared 36 entries for the Iowa High School Speech Association District Individual Speech Contest held February 29. Thirty-one Fort Dodge Senior High performers received Division I ratings and will move on to the State Individual Speech Contest on March...
The parents of Jennifer Yoder’s kindergarten students who were attending the Family Literacy Night at Cooper Elementary School Tuesday had two seating choices. Tiny chairs or the colorful rug that Yoder has the children sit on each morning when they first come to school. The carpet won. There was even...
March 3, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District is pleased to announce its students and employees of the month for March. This program recognizes one elementary, one middle school and one high school student, as well as one staff member monthly for exceeding expectations. Evie Piton...
February 27, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- “The Wizard of Oz,” the Fort Dodge Middle School 7th and 8th grade musical, will be performed at 7:00 p.m. on March 12 and 13 in the Fort Dodge Middle School auditorium. Nearly 85 students are involved in the production. In this adventure, Dorothy...
In the library at Cooper Elementary School, a pair of students work to dismantle a piece of ancient technology once used by their ancestors — a VCR with a VHS of the movie “Shrek” stuck in it. At the next table, another pair of students is taking apart a remote-controlled...
Matt Miller recently retired with the most victories in Fort Dodge Senior High football history. Winning was always a secondary message for the Dodger head coach, though. Success mattered, of course, but Miller always emphasized the importance of taking valuable life lessons away from the game itself. Appropriately, his final...
February 24, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- Registration is taking place now for Kindergarten Roundup at the Fort Dodge Community School District. Families can choose the session that works best for them: 12:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. The schedule is as follows: March 23 at Butler Elementary March 24...
Feelhaver Elementary students have been seeing “tremendous growth” in their reading scores this school year, according to the Fort Dodge Community School District. The elementary school students in the district are assessed using what’s called the Formative Assessment System for Teachers, or FAST tests, to help monitor reading skills progress...
Though she only has one job title, Bev Potter has myriad jobs. Over the last 10 years, Potter has found herself to be an author, a reader, a prom date, costume designer, dancer, singer and crafter, to name a few. Fort Dodge Community School District calls her a paraeducator, but...
Tara Smith, director of the Fort Dodge Middle School fifth- and sixth-grade bands, had her hands full Friday while the sixth-grade band warmed up for a performance at the North Central Iowa Bandmasters Association Middle School Concert Band Clinic. It’s an exercise very much like herding cats. It’s also deafening....
