A #dcsdshoutout to Sue Runyon, an AEA staff member who helped organize and fund a visit by New York Times best-selling author Katherine Hannigan to Audubon Elementary School.
What's New at Dubuque Community Schools
Kennedy STEM Night Photos
Kennedy Elementary School hosted its Family STEM Night on March 21, organized and planned by students and faculty from the University of Dubuque. An estimated 400 students and family members from Kennedy attended this evening of hand-on activities in science, technology, engineering and math.
Student Art Featured in March Digital Fringe
The March edition of Digital Fringe, an online gallery of student art in the Dubuque Community School District, is now live!
View the Elementary School Gallery
View the Middle and High School Gallery
This gallery is a way to highlight the remarkable products of art education in the district. It’s a digital attempt at bringing the work of our student artists at all levels into your home – because art is created for others to take in.
New York Times Best-Selling Author to Speak at Audubon, March 21
Katherine Hannigan
Katherine Hannigan, a New York Times best-selling author, will speak to students at Audubon Elementary School about writing and illustrating at 1 p.m. on Monday, March 21.
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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Commends Roosevelt Students on North Korea Research
It just so happened that two recent claims by North Korea regarding nuclear weaponry have coincided with related topics in Roosevelt Middle School teacher Peter Knutson’s eighth-grade science class. Most recently, garnering a response from former United States Secretary of Defense William J. Perry.
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ALC Economics Class Creates ‘Key City Coops’
Students in an economics class at the Alternative Learning Center aren’t spending all day cooped up in their classroom. Instead, they are bringing their class work to life by creating “Key City Coops,” a school business building and selling chicken coops and chicken tractors.
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National Conference Highlights Dubuque Re-engagement Efforts
From Wednesday, March 16 through Friday, March 18, city, education and national experts will gather in Dubuque to provide perspectives on how to re-engage the millions of youth and young adults in Dubuque and other cities across the country that have not graduated from high school.
Approximately 150 dropout re-engagement experts from 14 different states will convene in Dubuque to discuss policies and strategies for dropout re-engagement. Attendees will learn about Dubuque’s re-engagement landscape and explore ways to link re-engagement efforts with workforce development and Opportunity Youth strategies.
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District-Wide Update 8
2015-2016
Check out the latest District-Wide Update featuring “Key City Coops,” student artwork featured at the Dubuque Museum of Art, the High School Battle of the Books and a flying Mary Poppins!
Dubuque Senior Speech Team Earns All-State Honors
The Dubuque Senior High School Speech Team upheld its reputation as a speech powerhouse on February 20 during the Iowa High School Speech Association Large Group All-State Festival held at Iowa State University.
The Senior team claimed three Critic’s Choice Banners for outstanding performances of the festival in Ensemble Acting, One Act Play and Solo Mime. The team also received the E. Wayne Cooley Sweepstakes Trophy, awarded to the school that qualifies the most performing entries for the All-State Festival.
The varsity team accomplished this by qualifying an IHSSA state record of 17 performing events (plus two non-performing). In addition, the Senior ninth grade team qualified 5 events (2 performing, 3 non-performing).
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Dubuque Named a Grade-Level Reading Pacesetter
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, a collaborative effort to increase reading proficiency among children in low-income families, recently announced its 4th Annual Pacesetter Honors. Dubuque was one of 38 communities across the nation recognized as Pacesetters for “leading by example” to solve one or more of the challenges that can undermine early literacy – school readiness, school attendance and summer learning.
“Pacesetter Honors are among the highest awards presented by the Campaign,” said Ralph Smith, the managing director of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. “We are very proud of these communities and the numerous organizations and individuals behind them for joining forces and working tirelessly to uplift children and families. They remind us that we are seeing great progress and real results all across the country.”
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