Articles from March 2016

The March edition of Digital Fringe, an online gallery of student art in the Dubuque Community School District, is now live!

View the Elementary School Gallery

View the Middle and High School Gallery

This gallery is a way to highlight the remarkable products of art education in the district. It’s a digital attempt at bringing the work of our student artists at all levels into your home – because art is created for others to take in.

View previous galleries on the Digital Fringe page

Katherine Hannigan

Katherine Hannigan, a New York Times best-selling author, will speak to students at Audubon Elementary School about writing and illustrating at 1 p.m. on Monday, March 21.

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It just so happened that two recent claims by North Korea regarding nuclear weaponry have coincided with related topics in Roosevelt Middle School teacher Peter Knutson’s eighth-grade science class. Most recently, garnering a response from former United States Secretary of Defense William J. Perry.

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Students in an economics class at the Alternative Learning Center aren’t spending all day cooped up in their classroom. Instead, they are bringing their class work to life by creating “Key City Coops,” a school business building and selling chicken coops and chicken tractors.

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From Wednesday, March 16 through Friday, March 18, city, education and national experts will gather in Dubuque to provide perspectives on how to re-engage the millions of youth and young adults in Dubuque and other cities across the country that have not graduated from high school.

Approximately 150 dropout re-engagement experts from 14 different states will convene in Dubuque to discuss policies and strategies for dropout re-engagement. Attendees will learn about Dubuque’s re-engagement landscape and explore ways to link re-engagement efforts with workforce development and Opportunity Youth strategies.

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The Dubuque Senior High School Speech Team upheld its reputation as a speech powerhouse on February 20 during the Iowa High School Speech Association Large Group All-State Festival held at Iowa State University.

The Senior team claimed three Critic’s Choice Banners for outstanding performances of the festival in Ensemble Acting, One Act Play and Solo Mime. The team also received the E. Wayne Cooley Sweepstakes Trophy, awarded to the school that qualifies the most performing entries for the All-State Festival.

The varsity team accomplished this by qualifying an IHSSA state record of 17 performing events (plus two non-performing). In addition, the Senior ninth grade team qualified 5 events (2 performing, 3 non-performing).

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