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Important Dates:
11/04: Election Day: Levies for Learning, School Board
11/12: Two-hour Late Start Day (regular dismissal time)

Announcements:
November 5, School Board Meeting
7 p.m. Listening Session
8 p.m. Regular Meeting

November 12, 6-8 p.m., or December 4, 6-8 p.m.
Getting Ready for Kindergarten.

November 21, 6:30-8 p.m.
Turkey Bingo at Birch Grove School for the Arts

OARE Holiday Scholarship Breakfast and Craft Fair for Community and Staff
November 26, 6-9 a.m. $8 Osseo Senior High Cafeteria, 317-2nd Avenue NW, Osseo
> Call for tickets 763-391-7114

December 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
16th Annual Oak View Elementary Craft Show Applications for craft vendors due November 21
> Click here for more info.

Message From The Superintendent
Focused on the future
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the choices I’ll be making on Election Day and how those decisions will affect our collective future. Because I’m a teacher, I’ve also been thinking about how those issues connect to lessons we can teach our children.
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College Board recognizes District’s efforts to increase academic rigor

Student participation in college-level courses taught at ISD 279 senior high schools is up—way up, and the increase is garnering national attention.

The College Board recently recognized the Osseo Area Schools for its work in training nearly 200 educators to teach classes that prepare students to succeed in college-level Advanced Placement® (AP) courses.

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Monarch Mania at Weaver Lake Elementary: A Science, Math & Technology School

Student entomologists at Weaver Lake Elementary: A Science, Math & Technology school will share the results of their intensive study of monarch butterflies at the fifth annual Monarch Fair, held November 6, from 6-8 p.m. at the school.

Monarch Fair is the culminating activity for eight weeks of monarch study in kindergarten through sixth grade. Every student has been studying the monarch’s change from egg to larva to chrysalis and eventual emergence as a butterfly. Each grade level has its own monarchs in every classroom, focusing on a different aspect of these incredible creatures.

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