Name: Melissa Elsbecker Where do you teach? Fort Dodge Middle School What grade/subject do you teach? I am the eighth-grade reading teacher on the Blue team. Why do you teach? I became a teacher because I enjoy working with and getting to know young people. I enjoy my students every...
Classrooms of preschool students learned the lesson of friendship and uniqueness at Riverside Early Learning Center this week. On Tuesday morning, outdoor classroom teacher Ann Moenck led students to a picnic table covered with bottles of paint, where she let each student pick out a rock to decorate with whatever...
The Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education is considering a proposal that would move the district’s fifth-grade classes down from the middle school level to the elementary school level. If implemented, the changes proposed by FDCSD Superintendent Jesse Ulrich during a board workshop meeting on Monday evening could...
The Fort Dodge Community School District will unveil a new Dodger mascot during tonight’s varsity football Homecoming game. Throughout the years, Fort Dodge Senior High has had a number of mascots. No one is quite sure exactly when the first Dodger mascot was created, said Erik Hoveland, student services liaison...
Fort Dodge Community School District Superintendent Dr. Jesse Ulrich announced the goals he plans to accomplish as superintendent for the 2019-2020 school year during the FDCSD Board of Education meeting on Monday evening. Ulrich’s goals for this school year are: • Build capacity of staff as leaders and learners. •...
Nearly 50 years after he left Fort Dodge Senior High to enlist in the Marine Corps, Fort Dodge native Rick Ishmael has finally received his high school diploma. Ishmael drove up from his home near Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday to attend the Fort Dodge Community School District Board of...
The BRIDGES mentorship program through Fort Dodge Community School District is looking for community members to volunteer to mentor students. BRIDGES was established by Corey Moody in 1994 to promote the “total well-being” of the district’s students. The program serves students from kindergarten through 12th grade, said Moody, who is...
The Fort Dodge Community Schools (FDCS) Foundation recently hired Jodi Martin as their new Foundation Director. She will bring her experience as Foundation Director at Greene County Medical Center and Director of Online Programs at Iowa Central Community College to the FDCS Foundation, where she will focus on a broad...
"It's going to be a great day," Fort Dodge Middle School Principal Aaron Davidson told students as he passed them in the halls Tuesday morning. "It's going to be awesome." Tuesday was the first day of the new school year for the Fort Dodge Community School District, and it was...
The Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education approved the district's new emergency operations plan during its meeting Monday night. The EOP is part of a new state requirement signed into law by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in April 2018. It requires school boards and authorities in charge of...
