Friday was the last in a series of professional development days sprinkled throughout the 2017-18 school calendar. Students got the day off from classes while their teachers learned to teach more effectively. PD, as it’s referred to in …
Results of the experiments were conclusive at last week’s State Science & Technology Fair in the campus of Iowa State University in Ames. Des Moines Public Schools students are leaders in the laboratory. In the middle school division, …
The local branch of Saturday’s March For Our Lives, a nationwide demonstration advocating for gun control, had a distinct DMPS flavor to it. From the time school dismissed on Friday, when a group of students gathered at Central …
Where better than a gymnasium to stage the Google CS First Roadshow that pulled into Meredith Middle School Friday afternoon? That’s CS as in computer science, and it offered plenty of (mental) exercise for the gym full of …
Thursday was especially artsy around the district, something of a one-day Renaissance. Middle school musicians spent the day at the Fairgrounds rehearsing for last night’s annual All-City Music Festival. Simultaneously, finishing touches were being put on the opening reception …
