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by Joe Nathan SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Students and families ea ger to sa ve money on college costs ha ve been given a new tool by state legislators.

Thousands of Minnesota students have had to take remedial courses, which they must pay for but can’t count toward graduation at two-year colleges or fouryear universities.

For the first time, prospective college students will be a ble to a void r emedial courses at Minnesota’s pub lic two-year colleges and f our-year uni versities b y passing the statewide reading and math tests known as Minnesota Compr ehensive Assessments, or MCAs. A 2015 Minnesota Of fice of Higher Education r eport f ound tha t betw een 9,100 and 10,200 college students per year enr olled in r emedial courses between 2007 and 2012 within tw o y ears of gr aduating fr om high school. This was 27-29 per cent of the students w ho graduated and enter ed colleges or universities. Mor e than 50 per cent of students w ho enter ed Minnesota’ s pub lic two-year colleges took r emedial courses. Much mor e da ta on this is a vail-

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able fr om the MOHE r eport “Getting Prepared 2015, � f ound her e: http://bit. ly/2aJ7vGC. Depending on ho w man y r emedial courses students took, the costs could be hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Previously students could a void taking r emedial (also kno wn as de velopmental) courses b y achie ving an acceptable scor e on either the A CT or Accuplacer tests. However, as Minnesota Commissioner of Education Br enda Cassellius e xplained in a phone inter view, “Neither of these tests is tied directly to Minnesota’s standards in reading and math.�

The MCAs w ere de veloped to test what Minnesota has decided ar e sta te standards in reading, math and science.

Moreover, the commissioner pointed out that high school students “can ha ve

as much time as they need� when taking the MCAs, unlike the ACT test, which is timed.

This y ear, the Minnesota Sta te Colleges and Uni versities System – aka MnSCU, now called Minnesota Sta te – and the Minnesota Department of Education will discuss w hat scor e students must earn on the MCAs to a void remedial courses . P akou Y ang, the system director of P-20 and College Readiness, told me via email, “Minnesota State has yet to deter mine w hat the accepta ble SAT and MCA scor es are and plans to do so this upcoming year.�

State la w r equires MDE and the higher educa tion system to a gree. The Legislature asked that this be completed

by Dec. 31.

Meanwhile, Cassellius told me tha t MDE will send inf ormation about each student’s performance on the MCAs to district and charter pub lic schools dur ing the first week in August. It will be up to high schools to share this information with individual students and their families.

Remedial courses ar e contr oversial not only because of their cost b ut also because some r esearch questions their

value. The sta tewide Students f or Education R eform-Minnesota has shar ed research showing that, for at least some students, a “cor equisite� a pproach is valuable. This allo ws students to r egister in college-level, rather than remedial, courses w hile r eceiving tutoring and other assistance.

De bates a bout r emedial courses are contin uing. Meanw hile, legisla tors wisely decided that they should pr ovide a ne w w ay for students to “sho w w hat they know� and “test out� of remedial courses.

Hopefully by the end of 2016, MDE and the Minnesota Sta te higher education system will a gree on an MCA test score students will need to achie ve to avoid r emedial courses. Tha t w ould be a valuable step forward for students and families throughout the state.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teac her, administr ator and PT A president, is a f ormer dir ector and no w senior f ellow at the Center f or Sc hool Change. Reactions are welcome at joe@ centerforschoolchange.org. Columns r eflect the opinion of the author.

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Instrument donations needed to make Band For All Last school y ear, mor e than 230 students participa ted in band with an instrument that was donated to the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Band for All program. Instruments are still needed to serve all of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth-grade students w ho w ould lik e to participate in band b ut do not ha ve an instrument to use. All gentl y used band and orchestra instruments ar e accepted and used.

Instruments can be dr opped off during school hours a t Oak Ridge Elementary School of Leadership, Environmental and Health Sciences , 4350 J ohnny Cake Ridge R oad in Ea gan. If una ble to drop off the instrument, email band-

forall@District196.org to make arrangements to have it picked up. To receive a donation letter f or tax purposes , mak e sure to include y our name, address and phone number on a piece of paper inside the instrument case.

Band f or All also accepts monetary donations to repair donated instruments.

Monetary donations can be sent to Valley Middle School of STEM, c/o Cind y Hanson, 900 Gar denview Dri ve, A pple Valley, MN 55124 (checks should be made pa yable to V alley Mid dle School of STEM and put Band f or All in the memo line).

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Welcome back to Lakeville Area schools Lakeville Ar ea Pub lic Schools staf f members look f orward to w elcoming students back to class Sept. 6. For a full list of e vents including orienta tion sessions, families should check the district calendar a t http://isd194.or g/calendar/.

Additionally, families may view schoolspecific calendars on their childr enâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school webpages.

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30, will gi ve all elementary teachers the achievement da ta needed to tar get instruction for their students from the first day of the school year.

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On June 28, U.S. Secretary of Education John King Jr. gave one of the most powerful compliments to teachers tha t Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever heard.

He noted that his par ents, both public school educa tors, died fr om illnesses by the time he w as 12. He moved from relative to relative, and as he e xplained: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I struggled a lot. And I was kick ed out of a high school.â&#x20AC;? However, ultimately, â&#x20AC;&#x153;pub lic school teachers saved my life.â&#x20AC;? He w ent on to earn degrees at Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

King spok e a t an annual na tional confer ence sponsored b y the Na tional Alliance for Public Charter Schools. King described charters as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an important John King Jr. and per manent part of public educa tion.â&#x20AC;? But his praise for the impact educators can have went well beyond chartered schools.

King ackno wledged tha t sometimes students misbehave or, as he put it, engage in â&#x20AC;&#x153;challenging behaviors.â&#x20AC;? Despite this, King urged educators to â&#x20AC;&#x153;do everything y ou can to get to kno w students well.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what educators did for him as he struggled.

He tried to a pply those e xperiences as a public school teacher in Massachusetts, w here he helped start a charter school.

King pointed out tha t mor e than 3 million students w ere suspended in 2013-14. He believes thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too many. He urged educators to learn fr om the most effective pub lic schools â&#x20AC;&#x201C; district and charter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tha t use str ategies like r estorative justice to provide consequences for students without sending them out of the school building.

King also noted charter school enrollment is increasing throughout the country. Both in Minnesota and na tionally, enrollment in charters has gr own o ver the last se ven years, while enrollment in traditional district schools declined. Stefan Huh, director of charter school programs at the U.S. Department of Education, and I talk ed at the confer ence. He shared the f ollowing sta tistics fr om the National Center f or Educational Statistics:

â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Total pub lic school enr ollment w as 49,065,594 in 2006-07 and 49,709,977 in 2013-14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an increase of 644,383. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Of tha t total, in the same y ears, charter enrollment went from 1,157,359 to 2,519,065 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an increase of 1,361,706. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Traditional district enr ollment (in district schools) decr eased fr om 47,908,325 to 47,190,912 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a decrease of 717,413.

(These n umbers came from two tables: http://nces. ed.gov/programs/digest/ d15/tables/dt15_216.20. asp and https://nces . ed.gov/programs/digest/ d10/tables/dt10_100.asp.)

In Minnesota, district enrollment declined fr om 804,557 in 2006-07 to 780,915 in 2012-13. Meanwhile, charter enr ollment increased fr om 23,689 to 41,604.

Some Minnesota educators ha ve learned tha t they can carry out their ideas a bout ho w to help students b y starting charters . And as the sta tistics cited a bove sho w, gr owing n umbers of families are selecting charters . Charters in Minnesota enr oll a higher per centage of low-income and students of color than district public schools.

But charters ar e not just loca ted in cities lik e Duluth, Minnea polis, R ochester and St. P aul. Charters ar e located throughout the sta te, in sub urban communities like Anoka, Blaine, Bloomington, Br ooklyn Center , Br ooklyn P ark, Coon R apids, Eden Pr airie, Hopkins , Minnetonka, R amsey, Richfield and Stillwater. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also found in a n umber of gr eater Minnesota comm unities like Elk Ri ver, Forest Lake, Isanti, Cologne, Monticello and Otsego . A complete list of Minnesota charters is a t www.mncharterschools.org.

King ur ged educa tors, w hether in district or charter schools , to r emember the huge positi ve impact they can ha ve.

Reflecting on his own experience, he believes tha t the best educa tors r ecognize â&#x20AC;&#x153;the vast potential of children.â&#x20AC;?

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teac her, administr ator and PT A president, is a f ormer dir ector and no w senior f ellow at the Center f or Sc hool Change. R eactions are welcome at joe@ centerforschoolchange.org.

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New principal to start the year at Apple Valley High School Apple Valley High School AsMiddle School of STEM. sistant Principal Michael BolBolsoni has led implementasoni will start the 2016-17 as the tion of Apple Valley’s E3 STEM school’s new principal. program the last tw o years. The He was selected on June 3. program, which is funded by a $3 Bolsoni will r eplace Steve Demillion U.S. Department of Lagenaar, who is r etired at the end bor grant, has enabled the school of this school year after a 31-year Michael to ad d a fa brication la b and is career in District 196, the last giving students expanded opporBolsoni 17 as principal a t A pple V alley tunities to explore STEM-related High. When Bolsoni officially ascareer options. sumed the role July 1, he became Prior to joining the staf fat only the f ourth principal in the Apple Valley High, Bolsoni w as school’s 40-year history. a teacher peer leader f or the disBolsoni has been part of the trict’s Quality Compensa tion administrative team a t A pple Program from 2007 to 2011 and Valley High f or the last fi ve was a teacher a t the School of years. Since taking o ver as as- Steve Environmental Studies f or his sistant principal in 2013, he has first 11 years in the district.

Degenaar been instrumental in positioning Bolsoni has a bachelor’ s deApple Valley to be the high school com- gree in history from Gustavus Adolphus ponent of the district’s STEM pa thway College, a master’ s degr ee in educa tion of schools , w hich also includes Cedar from the Uni versity of Minnesota and Park Elementary STEM School, Echo a specialist degr ee in educa tional leadPark Elementary School of Leadership, ership from Minnesota State University, Engineering and Technology, and Valley Mankato.

Apple Valley High School’s theater department took a descent into the underworld for its 2015 winter one-act “Eurydice,” a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus.

Dying on her wedding day, Eurydice journeys to the underworld where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love Orpheus. (Photo by Andrew Miller)

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Students, parents encouraged to participate in One Book One Book One F armington, w hich aims to encour age an inter generational community experience centered around literature, is coming to town this fall.

The effort intends to stretch peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspectives of the w orld thr ough the collaboration of Farmington educators, the Dakota County Farmington Library and Farmington Area Library Friends.

The book tha t w as selected is the Young Reader edition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Boy Who Harnessed the Windâ&#x20AC;? by William Kamkwamba.

Organizers sa y the autobio graphical book is written in simple langua ge that can be enjoyed by a variety of ages.

It is described as a moving and inspirational story tha t pr ovides a windo w into the struggles of dail y life in rur al Africa while also demonstrating the universal po wer of perse verance and cr eativity. Organizers say that readers will walk away from the book thinking: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If William can do it, so can I!â&#x20AC;?

This fall, copies of the book will be distributed through the middle and high schools f or students to r ead and shar e with their families . The book can also be purchased from major booksellers or checked out fr om the Dak ota County

Library.

Slated in October ar e book discussions, sho wings of a film based on Kamkwambaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story , and educa tional events that aim to inspir e students and community members to cr eate with science.

Corporate sponsors and donations to provide snacks or pr ogramming are being sought.

To donate, send a message by email at farmington.library.friends@gmail.com.

Showings of the documentary film â&#x20AC;&#x153;William and the W indmillâ&#x20AC;? will be a t the F armington High School R ecital Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 25, a t 6 p.m. and at the F armington Pub lic Libr ary on Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 6 p.m.

A D VD of the film is a vailable to teachers f or use in the classr oom through the F armington High School Media Center Book Discussions ar e sla ted in the FHS Media Center on Thursda y, Nov. 3, at 2:45 p.m.; in the F armington Public Library on Tuesday, Oct. 4, a t 12:30 p.m. and on T uesday, Oct. 26, a t 12:30 p.m.

A presentation by The Bakken Museum officials called War of the Curr ents

will discuss electrical generation, tr ansmission, and conserv ation through the story of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison on Monda y, Oct. 10, 1-3 p .m. in the Farmington Pub lic Library.

P articipants will then e xplore hands-on experiments, science demonstrations, engineering challenges, and simple STEM activities.

Registration is required through the library.

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Board approves budget to support Vision One91, provide stability At its meeting on June 23, the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 Board of Education approved a b udget that aims to provide stability during the 2016-17 school y ear as the district implements Vision One91-related changes.

In or der to accomplish those goals , board members a pproved using $4 million fr om the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s b udget r eserves (savings account) to co ver incr eased expenses tha t w onâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be ma tched b y increased revenue.

Vision One91 is the work to redesign the district to meet the needs of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learners. It in volves gr ade r ealignment, expanded technology and new opportunities for students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isn â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a simple inf lationary incr ease,â&#x20AC;? said Boar d Member Jim Schmid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This b udget accomplishes a lot. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kept class sizes where they are, which ar e lo w compar ed to surr ounding districts. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve extended the school day for most students. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve added the eight-period day at the mid dle schools.

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Details of the a pproved 2016-17 District 191 b udget ar e at www.isd191. Burnsville High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class of 2016 graduated this June at Pates Stadium outside org. More about Vision One91 at www. the high school. Big changes are in store for the school this year as seniors will return to isd191.org/vision191. the building full time and ninth-graders are being added, too. (Photo by John Gessner)

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Construction of new school has begun in District 196 A lot has ha ppened in RosemountApple V alley-Eagan School District in the six months since No vember, when district v oters o verwhelmingly approved a $180 million bond r eferendum to pa y f or safety , space and technology impr ovements a t schools districtwide.

Most nota bly, designs ar e near ly complete f or elementary school 19, which will be loca ted in the southw est corner of the intersection of County Road 46 and Diamond P ath in Lak eville. Site work has already started and construction of the f oundation is e xpected to begin in July, just 14 months before the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s scheduled opening in September 2017.

The School Boar d pur chased the 22-acre Traditions site in Mar ch. It is located at the corner w here Lakeville, Apple Valley, Rosemount and Empir e Township meet. Unde veloped land surrounding the school site is planned residential and ther e is a pedestrian tunnel tha t pr ovides access to neighborhoods on both sides of CR 46.

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The site of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19th elementary school will be at County Road 46 (right) looking west at Lakeville and Apple Valley. The dirt road at the bottom is what will become an extension of Diamond Path south of County Road 46. (District 196 photo)

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New course aims to give ninth-graders a boost Ninth-grade students ar e e xpected to have a gr eat start a t Burnsville High School with a ne w course they will all take a t the start of the 2016-17 school year.

Named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Success 191, â&#x20AC;? the course aims to b uild a f oundation of kno wledge and skills tha t can help students make the most of their high school years and be ready for college and career when they graduate.

Since this is the first y ear that ninthgrade students will a ttend Burnsville High School, school leaders w anted more than a typical orienta tion. Social studies teachers de veloped the course with administr ative support and it will continue in future years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every school da y f or an entir e semester, our ninth-graders will be gaining crucial skills theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use to be successful,

NEW, from 10 Jeff Solomon said the site offers excellent access, has e xisting sewer and w ater and falls within the amount budgeted for land acquisition. The total cost for land and construction of the school is budgeted at $30 million.

Solomon said the loca tion is ideal for providing needed relief to Parkview and adjacent elementary schools tha t are feeling the squeez e f or space as a result of housing gr owth, the ad dition of full-day kindergarten and the expansion of school-based preschool options.

That r elief will come via a ttendancearea adjustments necessary to populate the new school, which will start with an enrollment of a pproximately 700 students with some room for growth.

An Elementary Attendance Ar ea Reconfiguration T ask F orce of staf f and parents will be assemb led this fall to develop a recommendation for establishing an a ttendance area for the y etto-be named school. The task force will include two parent representatives each from the potentiall y impacted elementary schools (Cedar P ark, Diamond Path, Highland, P arkview, Rosemount and Shannon Park) and one each from Scott Highlands and R osemount middle schools.

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and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll contin ue to b uild upon the skills every year,â&#x20AC;? said W illiam Derden, an associate principal at the school.

Examples of topics in the Success 191 class are: â&#x20AC;˘ Digital liter acy: Use of Schoolo gy online learning system, digital citiz enship, digital lo g-in and or ganization, common sense media. â&#x20AC;˘ Na viance: Inter est in ventories, career and college r esearch, support and mentoring. â&#x20AC;˘ Financial liter acy: Savings, budgeting, credit, debt, financial planning, insurance, taxes and giving. â&#x20AC;˘ College and car eer readiness: Pathways, interview skills. â&#x20AC;˘ AVID strategies: Organization, Cornell notes , Socr atic seminar and other college/career skills.

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Preliminary designs for the building were presented to the board in April by representatives fr om W old Ar chitects and construction manager Wenck Inc. Although plans could still change slightly, they sho w a tw o-story, 52,000-square-foot b uilding with a glass-walled media center in the middle of the school.

On the w est end of the b uilding are six clusters of fi ve classr ooms each â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thr ee clusters per story , one cluster per gr ade le vel (K-5). Each cluster of classrooms will include a common area in the center designed to serv e as an extension of the classr oom f or smallgroup instruction or to bring the entire grade level together.

On the east end of the b uilding, plans show the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main entrance, office area, gym, art and m usic rooms, and preschool and center-based special education classrooms.

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Walser grant boosts automotive program at Burnsville High The automoti ve program at Burnsville High School r ecently received a major boost fr om the Walser Foundation.

The pr ogram, w hich the district says has a long history of success , r elocated into a newly-renovated space this year as part of the V ision One91 changes to the school. After the relocation, the program needed cutting-edge equipment to provide real-world learning to students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, with a $200,000 donation fr om the W alser Foundation, the pr ogram is positioned to become the pr emier high school automoti ve pr ogram in the T win Cities metr o area,â&#x20AC;? said K athy Funston, the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dir ector of str ategic partnerships and pa thways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A program like this will allow students to gain skills r elevant to

industry standards, and be well positioned f or emplo yment and/or further educa tion after graduation.â&#x20AC;?

The schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s ne wly-created Engine and A utomotive Technology car eer pa thway focuses on r eal-world learning e xperiences that are rigorous and relevant. Curriculum aligns with industry standar ds and e xpectations so students can easil y move into desired careers in the automotive area.

Along with the gener ous donation, an on-going partnership has been de veloped that will benefit both W alser and Burnsville-Ea gan-Savage School District 191. The partnership will enhance learning opportunities for students, and support a future-ready employment base f or the automoti ve industry.

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Rosemount Elementary School students arrived for school in fall 2015 by bus, bike and walking for the first day of classes in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District. Kindergarten teachers wore their traditional colored feather boas to allow their students to readily identify them outside the school.

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