Transitional Kindergarten (TK) pre-registration for the 2020-21 school year opens February 17 at the Fort Dodge Community School District. To be eligible to attend TK in the fall of 2020, children must be five years old by September 15, 2020. Space is limited and a waiting list will be started...
For anyone visiting Thursday, it would have been pretty easy to reach the conclusion that teaching must be really stressful work for the staff at Cooper Elementary School. At least judging by the number of canes, gray hairs and pairs of support hose worn with pink slippers. For school nurse...
February 4, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- Cooper Elementary students participated in the Great Kindness Challenge the week of January 27. The Great Kindness Challenge is a bullying prevention initiative that improves school climate and increases student engagement. The Cooper Elementary Student Council made the decision for the school to participate....
February 2, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District is pleased to announce its students and employees of the month for February. This program recognizes one elementary, one middle school and one high school student, as well as one staff member monthly for exceeding expectations. Mason Zuspann...
January 27, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- Fort Dodge Senior High students prepared 14 entries for the Iowa High School Speech Association District Large Group Speech Contest. Twelve Fort Dodge Senior High speech groups received Division I ratings and will move on to the State Large Group Speech Contest on February...
Diane Pratt spent the last 20 years of her teaching career dedicated to educating gifted learners in the Fort Dodge Community School District. In recognition of her years of dedication to gifted learners, the University of Iowa's Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development presented Pratt with the...
The students attending the annual Dodger Academy Read By Flashlight Thursday afternoon had their choice of three different levels of illumination. There was the library with dimmed lights, the cafeteria with bright lights and the gym, completely dark. One of those, with a nod to a certain story with three...
A new calendar and school day schedule for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years were approved by the Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education on Monday night. Superintendent Dr. Jesse Ulrich told the board that his least favorite thing his job requires is the calendar. "The reason is...
More than six decades after leaving school and enlisting in the U.S. Navy, Thomas Filloon received an honorary diploma from the Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education on Monday night. Filloon would have graduated with the Fort Dodge Senior High class of 1956, but instead decided he...
The students attending the annual Dodger Academy Read By Flashlight Thursday afternoon had their choice of three different levels of illumination. There was the library with dimmed lights, the cafeteria with bright lights and the gym, completely dark. One of those, with a nod to a certain story with three...