St. Michael-Albertville’s girls’ basketball team kept up their winning ways, while the Buffalo boys’ team used a huge second half to knock off the Knights. But it wasn’t the results on the basketball scoreboard that drew the biggest cheers at STMA High School on Tuesday night. It was the number on the big, cardboard check […]
Jody Kelly Nominated for Teacher of the Year
The 2020 Minnesota Teacher of the Year will be chosen from a list of 134 nominees, and Jody Kelly, an eighth grade teacher at St. Michael-Albertville’s Middle School West, is among the nominees. Kelly has been teaching middle-level students at STMA since 2001, mostly in eighth-grade language arts. “The idea of helping others was something […]
A Pair of Jakes Take Middle School Geography Bees, Advance to Next Level
STMA’s two middle schools participated in a National Geographic school-wide geography bee on Jan. 10, with 8th grader Jake Green taking the school championship at Middle School East, and fifth-grader Jacob Lappin winning for Middle School West. This marks the first time in school history that a fifth grader won the GeoBee championship. Middle School […]
St. Michael-Albertville Rotary Announces Students of the Month
Homeroom teachers at St. Michael-Albertville High School are always on the lookout for exceptional eleventh-grade students to recommend for STMA’s Rotary Student of the Month program. Local Rotarians select students each month of the school year who embody their motto of “service above self,” with the focus on students in their junior year so the […]
High School Names Courtesy and Respect Award Winners
The St. Michael-Albertville High School honored its trimester one Courtesy and Respect award winners at their Monday evening school board meeting. Three students per grade are chosen to receive this award per trimester. Staff can nominate a student whom they feel fits the following characteristics, and then the entire high school staff votes for the […]
State Sees First Whooping Cough Death in Six Years
The MDH is urging parents, expectant mothers to consider immunization.
Minnesota health officials on Wednesday confirmed an infant death related to pertussis, also known as whooping cough. The infant was diagnosed with pertussis in August 2019 and died in November after being hospitalized for three months. The last pediatric death related to pertussis in Minnesota was in 2013. “We were extremely saddened to hear that […]
STMA School District, Teachers Struggle to Reach Contract Agreement
Minnesota school districts negotiate new contracts with their certified teaching staff every two years, and this year the St. Michael-Albertville school district and its local teachers’ union have thus far failed to reach an agreement on the 2019-2021 contract. A mediation session last month failed to result in a compromise, and the parties will resume […]
St. Michael-Albertville Rotary Announces Students of the Month
Homeroom teachers at St. Michael-Albertville High School are always on the lookout for exceptional eleventh-grade students to recommend for STMA’s Rotary Student of the Month program. Local Rotarians select students each month of the school year who embody their motto of “service above self,” with the focus on students in their junior year so the […]
School Board Approves One Year Trial of Elementary Orientation
The St. Michael-Albertville school board voted 5-1 Monday evening to allow a one-year trial of the proposed elementary-level orientation days. Next fall, the STMA school district will not have open house nights the last week in August for grades 1-4. Instead, parents will sign up for one-on-one, 30-minute orientations with their child’s teacher on the […]
Saint Michael-Albertville Schools to Consider Change to Elementary School Start
The school board will consider the issue at their Dec. 2 meeting
Have you ever felt rushed at your elementary student’s Open House night at the end of summer? The STMA school district is proposing a significant change to the current system of holding a 1.5 hour Open House at the end of August, and they posit that the new Fall Orientation Days will give students, teachers […]
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