“The sound is really ugly and scary,” reads a personal narrative written last month by a student in Nicole Ellis’s ELL language arts class at Lincoln High. Paola Rios Rosario was newly arrived from Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, …

“The BLUE program has been one of the most powerful experiences to impact me as an educator. It has made me a more reflective, innovative, and confident teacher, as well as an effective leader in my building and the…community. This …

Last week was Computer Science Education Week, and where better in the district to observe it than East High? Last year was the first time an AP-level course in Computer Science Principles was authorized by the College Board …

Jennifer Medina has been named Iowa’s Educator of the Year by the National Speech & Debate Association. The national winner will be announced on March 2, 2018, National Speech and Debate Education Day. “I am particularly honored because …

Nowhere in the 57-page program for Des Moines University’s 8th annual Research Symposium was the name Harry Potter (the name of a real live discoid South American cockroach, not the fictional boy wizard) to be found. But he was …