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KAAL-TV Created: May 13, 2021 08:22 PM (ABC 6 News) - Thursday, teachers and former students from the Rochester Alternative Learning Center held a planting event in honor of Liz Quackenbush.  Liz had built a garden next to Channel One Regional Food Bank and everything grown is given back to the community. Quackenbushs brother told us in March, that she inspired him to lift people up as she did to students as a former science teacher.   Her former students talked about h...

Staff writer Warren Scott RAISING AWARENESS. — Staff and students have been learning about autism through various activities, including art and essay contests coordinated by Brittany Kocher, behavior specialist at Brooke High School. Winners and participants included, from left, front: Kyla Adams, Zachary Lyons, Brandon Owns and Adia Opie; second row: Nina Goodman, Emerson Siranovic, Vincent Caruso, Brenlee Longwell and Alora Hutchinson; third row: Aleix Shifflett, Paisley Butler, Avery Gree...

Staff writer Warren Scott RAISING AWARENESS — Staff and students have been learning about autism through various activities, including art and essay contests coordinated by Brittany Kocher, behavior specialist at Brooke High School. Winners and participants included, from left, front: Kyla Adams, Zachary Lyons, Brandon Owns and Adia Opie; second row: Nina Goodman, Emerson Siranovic, Vincent Caruso, Brenlee Longwell and Alora Hutchinson; third row: Aleix Shifflett, Paisley Butler, Avery Gr...

Linda Thomas Special to the Journal & Sun Six-year-old Jonathan McCoy was agitated and angry. Things weren’t going well at home, and he was lashing out, disrupting his school class with his behavior. A teacher exiled him to the corner to cool. off, but he just started kicking the radiator instead. That’s when Phyllis Polillio first entered McCoy’s life. Polillio, a Stoughton Public Schools teacher assistant, took the first-grader aside and talked to him privately, telling him he shouldn�...

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The Tennessee Department of Education has announced 176 schools were selected for the second cohort of trauma-informed schools in Tennessee. This new cohort more than doubles the original 73 schools from the first trauma-informed schools cohort which launched in 2018-19. The list includes Cannon County. In Tennessee, the model trauma-informed…

Bray spring sale starts online Saturday The Archie Bray Foundation will be having an online spring sale May 1-22, featuring the work of current and past resident artists. Just in time for Mother’s Day, the spring sale will feature a wide variety of ceramic vases, planters and functional pottery as well as sculpture, jewelry and 2D work. The Archie Bray Foundation will be having an online spring sale May 1-22. Pictured is a vase by Kelsie Rudolph.   Photo provided New w...

New food drive for Rochester Community Schools The drive is led by White’s Cleaning & Restoration and United Way of Olmsted County and will help replenish resource rooms in the schools Posted: Apr 19, 2021 6:57 PM Updated: Apr 19, 2021 7:36 PM Posted By: Jeremy Wall ROCHESTER, Minn- Learning is challenging when students are hungry. As students return to in-person learning, Rochester schools are addressing new and existing barriers for them to achieve academic success. A local business and n...

(Photo from Save the Children Philippines) In a statement issued Thursday, April 15, SCP announced that renowned actress Liza Soberano has been appointed as the Save the Children Philippines Ambassador. Save the Children Philippines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) lawyer Alberto Muyot lauded Soberano’s “earnest desire” to help the most deprived and marginalized children realize their full potential. “We know that with Liza’s passion and influence, she will be inspiring a lot of children...

Priorities include full-time substitute teachers, replacing retirees and adding sixth-hour assignments. 10:00 am, Apr. 9, 2021 × The Park Rapids School Board heard from the school principals on Tuesday about plans and personnel needs for the 2021-22 school year. Elementary Principal Mike LeMier said the lower school will hold steady at 31 sections from kindergarten through grade 4, only changing from seven first-grade classrooms to six and adding a seventh kindergarten classroom. He ...