Utica Community Schools staff shares stories of challenges during pandemic By: Kara Szymanski | C&G Newspapers | Published June 9, 2021
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SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS After a year of many changes and restrictions, Utica Community Schools is celebrating the stories of people who showed resiliency, leadership and service during the global pandemic. In order to tell the stories, the district is seeking the help of the community to find groups or individuals to profile as “champions.”
The effort, #UCSChampions, is a monthlong series of stories about those who made a difference during COVID-19. Some UCS staff members have already been selected as champions to tell their own stories.
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A third Hutchinson USD 308 elementary school has been approved for launch as a redesign school.
After an hour-long presentation to the Kansas State Department of Education with ESSDACK looking on, Lincoln Elementary School staff were given the formal go-ahead from the department to go forward with their redesign efforts.
Or to use KSDE parlance, Lincoln received the go-ahead for a “launch” of its redesign.
Lincoln started studying the redesign process in the fall of 2019. In 2020, the school was approved by KSDE to be an Apollo II school.
“As a part of this process, the Redesign Team talked with staff members, businesses, parents, and students,” said Darla Fisher, Lincoln principal. “These conversations led the staff to create a common reason for wanting to redesign our school. Lincoln will help the students to develop a growth mindset, so that they can become community changers.”