Education is a complicated business, one that can bog down in data, jargon and pedagogy that are critical for practitioners but difficult to share with laypeople. Sometimes they are easier to illustrate than explain. The look on a …

Mid-August in Des Moines means an annual event that attracts folks from all across the state and beyond to one of Iowa’s destination venues for an experience that no summer around here is complete without. The State Fair? …

The acronym BFF is familiar to most people. BFL, not as much. However, for non-English-speaking families at Des Moines Public Schools, our Bilingual Family Liaisons may also become Best Friends Forever. The BFL team at DMPS, led by …

School officially starts for most of the district on August 23rd, but in the northwest feeder pattern, it never fully stopped this summer, it just shifted into a different gear. Lesleyann Christensen is the Community Schools Site Coordinator …