South St. Paul Public Schools takes pride in the variety of academic, extracurricular, and enrichment activities it provides. Sharing our borders and resources with the community of South St. Paul, you will find us large enough to serve, yet small enough to care.We are Minnesota's first K-12, IB World Schools District. Our high school has offered the prestigious IB Diploma program since 1986. We provide the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) in grades seven through ten. Our elementary schools carry the IB Primary Years Program (PYP) from kindergarten through grade six. At any age, South St. Paul Public Schools offers opportunities to learn, to grow, and to succeed.
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| Balance Plus Low Meal Balance Automated Calling System South St. Paul Public Schools will be launching a new automated meal account low balance phone calling system on January 9, 2012. This system will place automated phone calls to parents when their student’s meal account balance is low and is $1.00 or less for a full paid student and $.40 or less for a student approved for reduced-price meals. Parents will not be called if their student does not use their account and maintains an account balance that is exactly zero ($0.00). Calls will also go out to parents that already receive e-mail notices from their SchoolView or PayPAMS payment accounts ONLY if their student’s meal account goes below the balance listed above.
Automated calls will be placed during the regular school week on Monday through Friday, from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m, on the day or days in which the low balance listed above occurs. Parents will receive a call for each student that has a low balance. The Balance Plus Message that parents will receive is as follows: This is “Lincoln Center Elementary”. The Food Service Department reports that today for “John Doe” your child’s current lunch balance is “$.20.” Thank you for your support in your child’s education.
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Our Governor, Mark Dayton, encouraged businesses and school districts to partner for the Adopt-a-School program. South St. Paul Public Schools is seeking business/community partners to reach their goal of placing one SMART board in every classroom throughout the district.
The cost of each SMART board is $1,500. To date the District has installed 51 Smartboards of the 178 classrooms capable of supporting them. The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that uses touch detection for user input – e.g., scrolling, right mouse-click – in the same way normal PC input devices, such as a mouse or keyboard, detect input. A projector is used to display a computer’s video output on the interactive whiteboard, which then acts as a large touch screen.
Since teachers are able to record their written lesson on the SMART board in conjunction with their recorded voice, students greatly benefit by having the opportunity to view a lesson two or three times in order to fully learn the material.
If you are able to contribute or have questions, please contact Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Dave Webb at (651) 457-9465.
Read more... South St. Paul Public Schools Adopts iPad Initiative At the May 9, 2011, Board of Education meeting, the Board approved the 2011-2012 Capital Projects for Technology Levy budget. This budget includes a plan for 600 Apple iPads that will enhance learning opportunities for students throughout the two elementary buildings, secondary building, and Community Learning Center within South St. Paul Public Schools. This initiative supports our goal to increase student achievement for all. What does this mean?
In addition to the student technology plan, the Board approved 280 iPads that will be provided to teaching staff and administrators. Staff Development will be a critical component to support each of our staff members as we move forward with our technology initiatives. We continue to link arms and develop partnerships with surrounding districts to increase support and expand training opportunities for our staff. Students and parents will begin to see the power of Moodle for online learning, Google Apps for communication and collaboration, paperless lessons for the environment, and instructional applications that will enhance and support our curriculum through the use of the iPads. Thank you to our community for their support in approving our technology levy that makes all of this possible. We have an amazing community. |
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