The board won’t vote on the proposal until March 21, but directors had good things to say Thursday.
Hopkins appears on the way to transforming its junior highs into International Baccalaureate schools. While the School Board didn’t vote on the idea Thursday, most of the directors praised the program—including Irma McIntosh Coleman, one of two directors who voted against the idea in March 2012. “I was one of those naysayers. … I really did not think that I could sit back, look and think that I could support that,” McIntosh Coleman told the teachers presenting the proposal. “But the more I look and hear you, we realize the impact of people like you in our buildings and our classrooms that truly make that difference.” IB’s Middle Years Programme provides an enhanced curriculum for grades six through 10, although Hopkins would only offer …
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Kelly Dirks has been taking students to the Concordia camp for five years.
On the evening of Dec. 1, Hopkins German teacher Kelly Dirks heard her name called out unexpectedly during the middle of a three-course banquet that concludes the German immersion camp she takes students to every year. Dirks had been taking students to “Waldsee”—a Concordia College language program near Bemidji—for five years, bringing 33 students to this year’s camp. Yet she had no idea what was going on. It turns out Dirks was in for a treat: Concordia was taking the opportunity to honor her with its Leadership in Language Award for the five years she’d taken students to the camp. “It was very thoughtful of them to even remember,” she said. Dirks, who teaches German at Hopkins High School and both junior highs, was actually unfamiliar …
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Ninth graders in the Hopkins program serve as mentors who help seventh graders learn the ropes of junior high.
On Friday morning, nervous seventh graders milled about outside West Junior High. Although many had stopped by with their families earlier in the week to find lockers or have school photos taken, this was their first time venturing to junior high alone. But when it was at last time to enter, the students weren’t greeted by a ringing school bell. They were greeted by upbeat music and the cheers of clapping ninth graders wearing neon green T-shirts. Friday’s entrance kicked off a junior high program called “Where Everybody Belongs (WEB)” that helps seventh graders with the transition into junior high. The program started at North Junior High four years ago and launched at West Junior High this year. In WEB, ninth graders familiar with the …
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shewithnoname
10:27 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Save your money - don't do it! No one has to "petition" IB for authorization. What a school district is REQUIRED to do is hand over boatloads of money to this foreign organization which operates under Swiss Law. VOTE NO! www.truthaboutib.com more ›