At Willmar's Roosevelt Elementary, every Friday morning it's time for positive calls home, telling parents about the good things their kids are doing at school.
Willmar teachers are using their afternoons this week to prepare their rooms for the arrival of students next week. For elementary teachers, the week will start with two days of conferences with children and their families, giving them a chance to spend one-on-one time with each student.
Keaton Sundeen was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a very rare and aggressive type of childhood cancer that forms in the brainstem, according to the National Library of Medicine.