Wooden games and toys, quilts were left over from the 2019 Community Christmas Baskets campaign. 5:00 am, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
Independent School District 518 counselors and social workers including Maggie Gerdes (front, from left), Angie Meyer and (back, from left) Laurie Knudson, Carrie Adams and Melissa Burch join Robyn Moser of The Stag and Sheri Van Der Brink from Serenity Gifts with some of the items left from last year’s Community Christmas Baskets program. The items will be distributed to families in District 518 who are in need this Christmas season. (Julie Buntjer/The Globe)
WORTHINGTON When the Community Christmas Baskets program came to an end after last year, there remained a stash of perfectly nice gifts handmade wooden toys and board games, lovingly stitched quilts and an array of other items.
Winter activity schedules will be updated in the next few weeks on the ISD 518 website
Written By:
Josh Dale, District 518 | 10:40 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 ×
WORTHINGTON Independent School District 518 will resume in-person, grades 7 through 12 extracurricular activities starting Monday, Jan. 4 in accordance with Minnesota Emergency Executive Order 20-103 issued by Gov. Tim Walz. The Big South Conference will work within Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) bylaws to reschedule events that were postponed due to the pause. MSHSL requires each sports team to have a set number of practices before competition.
Winter activity schedules will be updated in the next few weeks on the ISD 518 website and can be found under the “Activities” tab on the home page. The activities department will work with our coaches to communicate when and where each sports team will practice on Monday, Jan. 4. Student-athletes must have a physical on file, submit a complete activities par
Students learning hands-on skills from a distance
Worthington Middle School FACS, visual arts and industrial tech teachers worked together to create take-home kits for students during distance learning model. 5:59 am, Dec. 16, 2020 ×
Worthington Middle School teachers David Blanchard (from left), John Hubbard and Katie Klosterbuer are learning to teach life skills to students as distance learning continues in ISD 518. The teachers created more than 600 kits for students to take home to make food, sewing, art and design projects in lieu of being in the classroom. (Julie Buntjer/The Globe)
WORTHINGTON The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of people to make adjustments, not the least of which are teachers and students. Changes from in-class learning to a hybrid model to distance learning have forced educators to switch up lesson plans and engage students through the most impersonal of means a computer screen.