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Washburn School District #4 713 7th St.; PO Box 280 Washburn, ND 58577 “The mission of the Washburn School District is to provide a quality education addressing the academic, physical, social, and emotional well-being of each student.”

From the Superintendent’s Desk… When superintendents discuss the enrollments of their school districts each year, it often turns into a math problem about money. State funding is based on the number of students who attended school in the previous year, so an increasing enrollment is met with smiles (unless it increases too fast), and a decreasing enrollment is met with frowns. Washburn School District’s enrollment in grades K-12 stands at 300 students as of this issue of the newsletter. We also have approximately 30 students in the Pre-K program. If recent history is any indication, these numbers should hold fairly steady throughout the school year. It’s a far cry from enrollment numbers of the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it does represent an 18% increase over the 2008-09 school year. So if we’re not going to talk about money as it relates to enrollment, then what’s left? First, I think it’s important to talk about programs. By programs I mean curriculum, special services, vocational, cocurricular activities, hot lunch, and transportation. In theory more students in school means more students in programs, and generally that holds true. We’ve split several elementary grades, added a section or two of some high school classes, and hired additional coaches and advisors. With students transferring in from all over, we find they may have already taken a course or that they are out of sequence. When that happens, we might use supplementary curriculum, like courses through the N.D. Center for Distance Education that we don’t or can’t offer in-house. A couple years ago we added an afternoon bus route for in-city students. On our rural routes, we often add stops in areas that we haven’t served in a long time. We also lose stops because the last student in a family has graduated. When our buses leave the school at 3:15, they carry lots of students. However, once they make their in-city stops and leave the city limits, there aren’t a lot of occupied seats anymore. As it gets more difficult over time to find bus drivers, this is a challenge that might require some creative solutions. Volume 25, #3

There are some programs in which we’d like to see more students. However, overall the health of school programs is generally strong and we expect that to continue for the foreseeable future. Another thing to talk about as a result of enrollment increase is demographics. In North Dakota “small & rural” doesn’t necessarily mean “agriculturally-related” anymore. Many parents new to the school district commute to jobs in Bismarck or other communities. Some are self-employed with no geographic restrictions on where they work, but they want to live in a rural area. The world is generally a smaller place for this generation of parents and students than it was for previous generations. Physical distance is not much of an obstacle anymore. People are willing to travel farther and more often for both work and recreation. If you don’t want to travel, then internet bandwidth, audio/visual technology, cell phones, and limitless data allow you to bring work and recreation to wherever you are, and customize it to fit your needs. Administrators and school boards can make some reasonable assumptions about enrollment based on recent history. It seems we will probably continue to experience gradual enrollment growth, although we should expect at some point to reach a plateau. Housing and job availability will determine that. At the September meeting of the N.D. Northwest School Leaders, nearly everyone in attendance reported some enrollment increase. For some schools it was significant; for others, it was only a few students. Nevertheless, it was a consistent theme. If the state’s economy continues to be strong and oil production holds, then overall it’s a bright outlook for school enrollments. ---------------------------------------------------------------How to Be Successful in 5 Easy Steps: 1. Do the work. 2. Do the work. 3. Do the work. 4. Be in the right place at the right time once in awhile. 5. Do the work.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS Dear Families of Washburn Elementary School, The elementary teachers and students have been busy getting settled into another school year. We have gotten off to a great start. At this time we have twenty-eight preschool students and 159 elementary students enrolled. Thank you for your efforts to prepare your children for the start of the school year. Please check on the academic progress of your children throughout the school year. PowerSchool is a great resource to check your child’s academic progress, attendance, and lunch account balance. Also, teachers often write notes or questions in the student planners. Please do a daily check of the student planners and if your child has homework. If you have questions or concerns, e-mail or call their teacher. If necessary, schedule a time to meet with the teacher. The Elementary Girls’ Basketball Season is underway and they have been doing a great job and having a lot of fun. Their last home game is against Garrison on October 3rd in the Olde Gym at 4:30. Let’s wish them good luck and a fun-filled rest of their season. I would like to thank the parents and students who take the time to collect Boxtops for Education for the school. This year we are also collecting Coke Rewards from bottle caps and UPC codes inside cases and twelve packs of Coke products. We really appreciate you helping us collect so many of these items that can be used to purchase items for classrooms and the playground. Thanks again! The fall mornings can be fairly chilly this time of year, so please make sure your children are dressed Volume 25, #3

warmly for morning recess. Students must wear coats out to recess if it is colder than 40 degrees. They can choose to wear a sweatshirt if it is warmer than 40 degrees. Students are allowed to wear shorts from the start of the school year until October 1st and from May 1st until school is completed. We look forward to an excellent year with your children! Sincerely,

Jerad Voglewede, Elementary Principal _______________________ PICTURE RETAKE DAY! Picture retake day has been scheduled for Thursday, October 12th. If anyone would like to have their picture retaken, they need to bring the entire packet (the envelope everything came in) back on retake day. The deadline to order pictures is Friday, October 13th. Pictures can be ordered online or with the paper form in the packets and returned to the school. ________________________ FLU SHOTS AVAILABLE The Public Health Office will be offering flu shots at the school on Tuesday, October 24th, 2017. The flu shot consent forms were handed out to the students already. If your child did not bring home a consent form and you would like your child immunized, please contact the school secretaries or the Public Health Office for a consent form.

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October 2017

MUSIC DEPARTMENT ON THE MOVE! Exciting things have been happening in the music department so far this fall. Students will have auditioned for various honor programs and are now just waiting for results. Carter Knutson, Monica Goven, Harley Ternes, Shelby Verke, Ashlyn Schmitz, Alexis Duke, MadeLynn Jaeger, Morgan Olson, Kari Patterson and Ryleigh Schmidt will be participating in the “Surround the State in Song” on October 14th in Bismarck. Everyone is invited to attend the program which will take place at 4:00 PM. The performance site is to be announced in Bismarck. All parents that have students involved with the music program in grades 5-12 are encouraged to attend the Music Boosters meetings. This organization helps sponsor many of the music department activities. We need your support and input; come and be a part of a very important phase of the Washburn Music Program. If you have any questions or concerns contact Mr. Hall. Our next meeting is October 23rd at 7:00 PM in the commons area of the school. The music students in grades 7-12 will be doing a gourmet coffee fundraiser. More information will be in the November newsletter. Washburn is again hosting the Elementary/Jr. High Music Festival in March. If you would like to volunteer your services as a door monitor, hall monitor, working in the concessions or any other area, please contact Mr. Hall at your earliest convenience. You will be put on a list and Mr. Hall will contact you with more information closer to festival time. We know that you want to help, and it’s a great way to help out the music department, so don’t delay - call right away!!!!!! Volume 25. No. 3

The Music Boosters are in the final process of updating the community calendar. If you would like to add or delete a birthday or anniversary, please contact Mr. Hall at the school or email him at [email protected] before October 13th. This will be the last day that any changes can be made in the calendar for this coming year. We encourage you to participate in this fundraising project. There is no cost to you in having a birthday or anniversary placed in the calendar.

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NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH WEEK OCTOBER 9-13, 2017 Today’s school lunches meet strict nutrition standards, including limits on calories, sodium and unhealthy fats. School meals must offer… - ¾ cup of vegetables with every lunch. - 1 cup of 1% or fat-free milk. - ½ cup serving of fruit daily - Entrees must include whole grains and lean protein. More than 30 million students enjoy healthy lunches every school day!

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September 2017

Eight Skills Every Student Needs by 18 By JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS/School Administrator, September 2017 WHEN I WAS Stanford University’s freshman dean, too many of my students lacked a sense of agency in their own lives and that concerned me. I began speaking out against the overparenting I was seeing on my campus — parents attending information sessions designed for students, parents reviewing papers before a student turned them in, parents arguing with professors over grades. That kind of thing. One day I was having dinner with my own kids when I leaned over and began cutting my 10-year-old son’s meat. That was my a-ha moment — that we’ll find it nigh on impossible to let an 18-year-old have agency in his or her own life if we’ve been doing too much for them throughout childhood. That’s when I realized the lack of agency wasn’t a college problem, it was a problem rooted in childhood. We parents love our kids fiercely, and we’re afraid they won’t be successful in life unless we handle the stuff of life for them — so we manage their deadlines, bring forgotten belongings to them, speak with authority figures on their behalf, and keep track of and often outright do their schoolwork. They grow chronologically to adulthood, but they lack the skills to enable them to fend without us, and somewhere deep inside of them they feel incompetent no matter how successful we’ve been at perfecting things for them. Reasonable Expectations I drew up this list of eight things with an eye toward what I felt was lacking in college students and with a memory of what we used to take for granted an 18-year-old could do. K-12 educators can reflect upon how to help students learn these skills. Policies forbidding parents from bringing forgotten homework, sports equipment, clothing and lunches are a great place to start. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO TALK TO STRANGERS. In the real world, that means faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care providers, bus drivers and mechanics. The crutch: We teach kids not to talk to strangers instead of teaching the more-nuanced skill of how to discern the few bad strangers from the mostly good ones. Thus, kids end up not knowing how to approach strangers — respectfully and with eye contact — for the help, guidance and direction they will need out in the world. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO FIND HIS WAY AROUND. That includes a campus, the town in which her or his summer internship is located or the city where the student is working or studying abroad. The crutch: We drive or accompany our children everywhere, even when a bus, their bicycle or their own feet could get them there. Thus, kids don’t know the route for getting from here to there, how to cope with transportation options and snafus, when and how to fill the car with gas or how to make and execute transportation plans. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO MANAGE ASSIGNMENTS, WORKLOADS AND DEADLINES.

The crutch: We remind kids when their homework is due and when to do it — sometimes helping them do it, sometimes doing it for them. As such, kids don’t know how to prioritize tasks, manage workload or meet deadlines without regular reminders. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE RUNNING OF A HOUSEHOLD. The crutch: We don’t ask them to help much around the house because the checklisted childhood leaves little time in the day for anything aside from academic and extracurricular work. Thus, kids don’t know how to look after their own needs, respect the needs of others or do their fair share for the good of the whole. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO HANDLE INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS. The crutch: We step in to solve misunderstandings and soothe hurt feelings for them so that kids don’t know how to cope with and resolve conflicts without our intervention. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO COPE WITH UPS AND DOWNS. This relates to courses and workloads, college-level work, competition, tough teachers, bosses and others. The crutch: We step in when things get hard, finish the task, extend the deadline and talk to the adults. Thus, kids don’t know that, in the normal course of life, things won’t always go their way and yet they’ll be okay regardless. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO EARN AND MANAGE MONEY. The crutch: They don’t hold part-time jobs. They receive money from us for whatever they want or need. Thus, kids don’t develop a sense of responsibility for completing job tasks, accountability to a boss who doesn’t inherently love them, or an appreciation for the cost of things and how to manage money. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MUST BE ABLE TO TAKE RISKS. The crutch: We’ve laid out their entire path for them and have avoided all pitfalls or prevented all stumbles for them. As such, kids don’t develop the wise understanding that success comes only after trying and failing and trying again (grit) or the thick skin (resilience) that comes from coping when things have gone wrong. Remember, our kids must be able to do all of these things without calling a parent on the phone. If they’re calling us to ask how, they do not carry that life skill. JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS is the author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), from which this column is drawn with the author’s permission. E-mail: [email protected]. Twitter: @DeanJulie

WHS Drama presents By Jacqueline

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Cast Dirk McCoy………………………...……Matthew Melvard Frieda Fredette…………………………….…....Juli Dickson Hattie Baxter-Johnson……………...…Emily Westrick Clara Everett………………………...…………..Emma Olson Biff Sligo…………………………………..Jakob VanderWal Tiff Sliggy…………………………….…….……….Karly Smith Marty Kolchak…………………..………....Alexis Waldren Edna Kolchak………………………...…………Katlyn Olson Janey…………………………………………………..….Gabi Neal Mrs. Rappelle…………………………..….Cassidy Sommer Ms. Prentiss………………………………...Bethanie Ternes Miss Kowlaski……………………………….………..Zoe Neal Bertucci……………………………….…………Ryan Tweeten News Announcer……………………..Hannah Westrick

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