Divide County School District

FROM: ND Department of Public Instruction Heads up! Governor Burgum and Superintendent Kirsten Baesler will be discussing ways to safely hold high school graduations during his press briefing today (Wednesday May 6). If you have a child or loved one who is graduating from high school in North Dakota, you'll want to listen in. The press briefing begins at 3:30 p.m. Central. It will be streamed on the ND Department of Health's Facebook page. It will also be broadcast on local television stations.

Graduation will be held on May 24th at 2:00 as previously scheduled. Details of the exact location and ceremony will follow. Thank you.

It's Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week! Please join us in celebrating our DCE teachers and staff on May 7. Hope to see you there!

This message is being sent out by Mr. Harding. I am working on setting up our Drivers Education Class for the summer. I have talked to the 8th graders and found out who is interested. If any other students from DC are interested in taking Drivers Ed. please email or call Mr. Harding, ASAP. I would like to get the class rolling soon, I just need the final numbers of students interested. Thanks

ART Class for GRADES 4-6 is still ON as scheduled. Join Mrs. Muncaster at 2:30 in TEAMS. (art class is optional)

Don't Forget! You can complete your 2020 Census online in just a few minutes. It is important information for our school and community! 2020CENSUS.GOV

ATTENTION ALL 8TH-11TH GRADE STUDENTS AND PARENTS: If you are a current student in any of the 8th through 11th grades, you need to pay particular attention to this notice. Mrs. Harding and I are inviting you to a Pre-Registration meeting this Friday morning, May 1, 2020, to complete a survey for next years’ classes (2020-21 school year). We have scheduled each class of grades 8-11 to meet for half an hour starting with 8th grade at 9:30 a.m. Friday morning, to explain the pre-registration survey and answer questions. Students will receive an invitation, Thursday, April 30 via their school g-mail account asking each student to join a Google Classroom that has been created specifically for next year’s registration, informing you of the time you need to be available Friday morning for your Google Meet and survey session. 8th grade class (incoming 9th grade) – 9:30 -- join “Incoming 9th Grade for 20-21 School Year” 9th grade class (incoming 10th grade) – 10:00 -- join “Incoming 10th Grade for 20-21 School Year” 10th grade class (incoming 11th grade) – 10:30 --join “Incoming 11th Grade for 20-21 School Year” 11th grade class (incoming 12th grade) – 11:00 --join “Incoming 12th Grade for 20-21 School Year” It is imperative that every student of each respective grade check into Google Classroom at their assigned time slot for this survey. You will find a link to a Google Meet session in your designated classroom. Please plan on attending this meeting Friday morning. Thank you. Dr. Sherlock Hirning

Library books-If you are finished with a library book, please return it if you are able. We have other students waiting for books and the end of the year is fast approaching. Both elementary and HS books can be returned to the drop box located at the public library enterance. Please contact Mrs Wissbrod if you have any questions or concerns.

DCHS Senior Families - A survey seeking input from senior families regarding graduation was emailed today to emails we have on file. If you do not receive it, please email nicholas.ator@k12.nd.us with your updated email information.

Hey everyone. We all hope that you’re staying safe and healthy during this unprecedented time of unease and inconvenience. We know that the students of our school have all been dealt a cruel hand. Things like sporting seasons, awards ceremonies and social functions have been taken from them like never before, not to mention plain old school. We are working behind the scenes to make an honest effort at providing whatever we can in terms of these events. We are still, in part, hoping that possibly we can return to the school building in May. With that said, we need to consider forms of alternative options. We could have prom in May or at a later date into the summer. Graduation, especially, is our number one priority. For graduation specifically we are considering a few alternative plans including but not limited to: a ceremony outdoors on the football field where we could practice social distancing, a digital display of students using Facebook or the like, or simply moving the date back into the summer. All of these plans have weaknesses and will cause us problems, but it is the best we can offer during this time. In the meantime we are awaiting guidance from the Governor on whether we can be in the school building or not in May. At that point we can finalize our decisions as quickly as possible. We thank everyone for their patience and understanding.

Please join us on the ND FBLA Facebook page for the North Dakota FBLA Virtual Awards of Excellence Program. https://www.facebook.com/NDFutureLeaders/

Kindergarten Registration! Registration will be completed electronically at this time. Please reference the information found in the attached picture. Your child must be 5 years old on or before July 31st, 2020 to register for the 2020-2021 school year.

-As you know this coming Monday, April 13th is NO SCHOOL. The high school has decided that we should have Monday's schedule be made up on Friday the 17th. So in short, Next Friday the 17th you will have your EVEN hour/period classes, that would have happened on Monday. Next Week (13th to the 17th): Monday: No School Tuesday: ODD hour classes Wednesday: EVEN hour classes Thursday: ODD hour classes Friday: EVEN hour classes. Please reach out to your teachers and ask them if you have any questions on this. Thank you!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to say hello and thank all of our awesome students and staff for their hard work this first whole week of E-learning. I want everyone to know that we at the school are thinking about you and feeling confident that everything will get back to normal one of these great days. For our students grades 7 thru 12, if you need anything don't hesitate to email myself or your teachers on my/their Google account. Keep being diligent in your effort to connect with your teachers and fellow students so you can finish this school year strong. Take care!

Divide County School is lighting up the football field as a sign of hope that we will get through this tough time together. We are DC!

NOTICE: NCC will be doing a fiber upgrade between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. today. The internet will be down for a brief period of time.

Teen Readers! Check out this awesome ebook database that the State Library offers: Teen Book Cloud. Username: ndtumbles Password: trial Available through August 31, 2020 https://www.teenbookcloud.com/Home.aspx

DAY 1 - Successful! Good Evening, Everyone! I want to thank everyone who helped make this first day of online learning a success! Thank you to our teachers who diligently worked to convert classroom learning to an online platform in a matter of 7 days! We are so blessed to have such dedicated, talented, and innovative teachers and staff at DCE! They put in LONG hours making sure that we could continue educating the kids of our community! Thank you to our PARENTS!!!! You truly are rock stars! Thank you for being patient with us as we introduce you to this new platform. Thank you for adding even more responsibilities to your already full plates during this time of uncertainty. We appreciate all that you are doing alongside us right now! You are not alone - we are here to support each other every step of the way! Thank you to our students! They are so resilient and eager to try out this new platform! So much so that a few of them made some discoveries prompting us to set up some guidelines and boundaries for using the online learning platform. They keep us on our toes!! Please see said guidelines attached to this message and review the expectations with your students. I'll be going over them during announcements tomorrow morning as well as popping into a few LIVE lessons to review the expectations with smaller groups of students. I appreciate everyone's help! We can do this TOGETHER! ~Mrs. Brown

Need new library books? Contact Mrs. Wissbrod at megan.wissbrod@k12.nd.us. Check out the online library catalog to see what is available. Pick up at the elementary/public library. https://polaris.odinlibrary.org/polaris/default.aspx?ctx=27.1033.0.0.1

DCE teachers will be going LIVE during their scheduled live classroom times beginning today. Don't worry if you don't have access or aren't sure where to go yet. Monday and Tuesday are the days for us to help everyone get things figured out. Email your teacher or Mrs. Brown if you are having any difficulties. We're here to work through this TOGETHER! We'll see you soon!