Today we had a special guest come and visit our team! It was…Bryan!! 👸🏼🤩👑 She read us her very own book that she wrote! 📖🐱 It was so good! 💯 Thank you for joining us and also staying to learn about the 16 Habits of Mind! 😊🧠

We love connected learning!! 💙 Thanks to Mrs. Shepardson’s class for sharing their AMAZING maps with the youngers yesterday! 🤩🌎 They were so proud of all their hard work and they did an outstanding job!!! 👏🏻👏🏻💯

Thank you to the Brookings High School FFA for putting on yet another AMAZING petting zoo for the kids!!! 🚜🐣🐮🐷 They absolutely LOVE going every single year!! 🥹💙🫶🏻

We will never pass up on a multiage connected learning opportunity! 🧠😊💙 Thanks to the olders for sharing their posters about different famous Americans! 🇺🇸⚾️🏩 They were amazing!!! 🤩👏🏻

A huge thank you to all of our mystery readers that came in to celebrate Read Across America Week! 🙌🏻📚 Our learners loved seeing the new faces each and every day! 😊

Our team absolutely LOVES teaching these to our kids!! 💙 The success we see from our learners who are implementing them everyday is truly something special! 🫶🏻

Thank you Debra DeBates for coming to read to the Blue Team yesterday! 😊 We love listening to a good story! 💙📖

Thanks to Mrs. Shepardson’s class for sharing their symbols projects with our younger learners today! 🤩👏🏻🇺🇸🦅🗽We love connected learning opportunities! 💙

Just a couple of veterans showing the kids how to rock out the egg drop challenge for letter E day! 🥚🤩🥳👏🏻

What an awesome day! ☺️ Pretty special to live in a community where your college basketball team will come spend time with our learners at school! 💙💛 Thank you Jackrabbit Men’s Basketball for making memories for these kids that they’ll never forget!! 🏀🫶🏻 #CEO #hulahut #jackswin

One of our favorite ABC countdown days - Liquid Liftoff! 🚀💥😊 It’s hard to believe we’re down to only 2.5 weeks left with our learners!! 💔 It sure has been a year to remember! 💙💙

One last picture with one amazing group of kids. 💙 We hope you all have an amazing summer! ☀️

School should be a place where: Kids want to go Staff want to go Families are proud to send their kids

🍬 Your Ss will love this “sweet” activity from Kelly Verity!

It’s sheer insanity to expect teachers to implement both differentiated learning and standardized testing. We must choose one or the other; you can’t effectively support diverse learners while enforcing a one-size-fits-all assessment system.

Our students need recess, unstructured play, physical education, all the Arts, and their extracurricular activities! That's how we make their social/emotional health a priority.

No one should care how a kindergartener compares on a standardized test with kindergarteners around the country. They should care if the child feels cared for, valued, successful, and actually enjoys coming to school to learn.