Author Archives: ElizabethHedlund

Superintendent Elstad held an open discussion session on Friday January 26, 2024 at the district office on Bridge Street, 8:30-9:30am.  First, he discussed the ongoing work regarding the elementary school attendance boundary lines, including an update from the first Input Team meeting that took place at OMS 1/23/2024. Mr. Elstad noted that the last time majorContinue reading “1/26/2024 Coffee with the Superintendent”

The regular school board meeting began at 5:30pm at the Charles S Crandall Center Chambers. Regular board meetings are recorded and can be viewed from the district website or YouTube: https://www.isd761.org/our-district/school-board/meeting-dates Mission Moment, as given by Superintendent Elstad, recognized 3 district support staff for dedicated hard work of many years. This was for Gwen Vogt, CurtContinue reading “1/22/2024 Regular Meeting”

Beginning last year, the district began conversations with the school board about possible changes in boundary lines for our elementary school attendance. Three main reasons for this: 1. increased enrollment at some of the schools (now exceeding capacity at Lincoln) with room to spare at others (Wilson). 2. Maintain or improve program equity so all studentsContinue reading “K-5 Boundaries Design/Attendance Area Development Process”

Our first school board meeting of 2024 began with the annual Organizational Meeting. This meeting includes multiple votes, including that for the Election of Officers, Committee assignments, and various legal and business decisions. All votes seemed to be typical and routine with no major changes from last year. Election of Officers: School Board Committee assignments: https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/1055?meeting=615873 TheseContinue reading “1/8/2024 Organizational Meeting and Work Session”

With only one meeting in December, Monday December 11, 2023 was the school board’s last meeting for the year, so this was a regular meeting and not a work session. Superintendent Elstad began with Mission Moment, recognizing our orchestra teachers who recently received a string award. Present at the meeting tonight was Ms. Lisa Revier whoContinue reading “12/11/2023 Regular Meeting”

As I read some of the news articles over the last few weeks, I’m reminded how important it is that our schools remain a neutral place where any child or student can feel safe and welcome. https://elizabethforowatonnaschools.com/in-the-news/ We all recognize that our students will differ in many ways, and I think we can agree thatContinue reading “News”

Our regular school board meeting took place at the City Chambers and began at 5:30pm. After the call to order, Pledge of Allegiance and approval of the agenda, Superintendent Elstad used Mission Moment to highlight the OHS Magnet, our high school’s newspaper written by OHS students. This team of students and their director, Ms. Wagner,Continue reading “11/27/2023 Regular Meeting”

We held our first school board meeting at the City Chambers office at 5:30pm on Monday. The new space is beautiful, with a board table, microphones, cameras and large screens. New furniture and carpet gave the air “that new car smell.” New chambers aside, our work session immediately followed the World’s Best Workforce presentation. TheContinue reading “11/13/2023 Work Session”

This week’s update will be divided into 2 posts because we essentially had 2 meetings on Monday. The World’s Best Workforce presentation began at 5pm and was given by Mrs. Julie Sullivan our director of teaching and learning and Mr. Ken Griswold our data and assessment coordinator. This is a summary of that presentation. AsContinue reading “11/13/2023 World’s Best Workforce”

The annual World’s Best Workforce presentation starts at 5pm tonight and will be followed by the school board work session at 5:30pm. Our location for meetings is now the City Chambers office and no longer at the district office. There were five goals for the WBW, and after this year’s legislative changes, they removed theContinue reading “Update: WBW 5pm”