2 Local Teachers Candidates for MN Teacher of the Year
ST. PAUL Two local teachers are among the list of 75 candidates for this year s Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
Katherine Green is a language arts teacher at Tech as well as a yearbook advisor, and a teacher mentor in the St. Cloud Area School District.
Louise Ziegler is an Early Childhood Special Education Teacher at Hillside in the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District.
This year s program will name the 57th Minnesota Teacher of the Year. The field of 75 will be narrowed to a group of semifinalists in a few weeks, and then down to the list of finalists later in March. The scheduled Teacher of the Year banquet is set for May 2nd at the St. Paul RiverCentre.
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(KNSI) – Officials with St. Cloud Area School District 742 say their students in secondary school will be returning to full-time in-person learning early next month.
The St. Cloud School Board decided at a meeting Wednesday night and came up with a tentative plan for students in grades six through 12 to go back to the classroom for the third trimester.
After the second trimester ends later this month, students will have the entire first week of March off for break, and staff will begin transitioning and preparation on March 8th and 9th. Students are tentatively set to return on March 10th. This is the first time students will be back in the classroom full time since last March when Governor Tim Walz ordered all schools to close and go to full-time distance learning.
Secondary Students Returning to In-Person Learning Next Month
At Wednesday night s school board meeting, Superintendent
Willie Jett announced a tentative plan to move junior high and high school students to the in-person learning model Monday through Friday for the first time since last spring.
Mid-winter break will take place March 1st through 5th, and then to prepare for the switch there would be no school for secondary students on March 8th and 9th. Secondary students in the District Learning Academy also would not have school those two days.
The return to in-person learning would then begin on March 10th right at the start of the third trimester.