It's a Pink Out at the Armstrong football game.  Armstrong has changed its colors to pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Plan to attend the Armstrong vs Park Center football game on Wed., Oct. 19 and wear pink. A Big Pink Shout Out to Armstrong Senior Parker Stinski for organizing this event!

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Robbinsdale Middle School Parent Night & BBQ Dinner, Tues., October 25, 5:45 - 8 p.m.  All parents of current RMS students are invited to attend.  Join Principal John Cook, Superintendent Aldo Sicoli and others to learn about RMS and IBMYP. Dinner is free, but you need to RSVP.   Click here to RSVP.

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Halloween Family Fun Night Concert presented by Cooper Orchestra, Thurs., Oct. 27, 6 p.m., Cooper High School Cafeteria.  Come to hear spooky music, enjoy treats and play lots of fun games.  All ages welcome - be sure to wear a costume! Admission $3 - proeeds to help fun CHS Orchestra tour to San Francisco.

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Robbinsdale Armstrong Theatre Department Presents Our Town by Thornton Wilder. October 27 - 29, 7 p.m. Tickets available at the box office. $4 students and seniors;  $6 adults.

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Annual Cooks Spaghetti Dinner is Wed., November 2, 4:30 - 7 p.m. at Robbinsdale Middle School.  Cost is $5/Adults; $3/Kids 6-12; 5 and under free. Tickets available at the door.

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Fall Music Festival at Orchestra Hall is Mon., November 7, 7:30 p.m.  The combined choirs and symphony orchestras of Robbinsdale Area Schools will perform with Kathy Saltzman Romey returning as guest conductor.  Mark your calendars! Tickets are available at both high schools and the ESC - $10 adults, $5 students.

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Noble Elementary unites against bullying

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Robbinsdale Schools Address Bullying with Their Youngest Students

KARE11

Smart Tables spark learning at Northport Elementary

The School Board met Monday, October 17 for a Group Dialogue, Work Session and a Regular Meeting 

For up-to-date School Board news,  click on Minutes, Podcast and Webcast below.

- Agenda 

-  Calendar 

- Minutes, Podcast and Webcast  

Robbinsdale Cooper Physical Education Teacher Inducted into NDSU Hall of Fame

Congratulations to Jen Rademacher, physical education teacher at Cooper, on being inducted into the North Dakota State University Hall of Fame.  A three sport athlete in high school, Jen earned a basketball scholarship to NDSU in 1992. Rademacher was a four-year starter for the North Dakota Bison, who won four straight NCAA Division II national championships during her tenure as well as numerous personal awards.  Rademacher was inducted in a ceremony on September 30.  She is also the Cooper Hawks' head coach in both girls' basketball and girls' golf.

Click here to read more about Jen's outstanding career!

Plymouth Middle School Student Artwork Honored 

Three PMS eighth grade students won top honors in the New Hope Mayor's Prayer Breakfast poster contest.   Hanna Kantor, Kelli Appelen, and Anthony Brown-Norton, pictured at left with City of New Hope Mayor Kathi Hemken, won first through third place, respectively.  Three sixth grade students,  Smith Madson, Katie Hansmann, and Kaylyn Leonard received honorable mentions. 

The artwork will be displayed at the New Hope Mayor's Prayer Breakfast, an event held annually in October.  This year's breakfast will be held on Friday, October 28.  The theme is "New Hope for Children".   Mayor Hemken came to Plymouth Middle School to recognize the students and their accomplishment.  Click here to read more.

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Robbinsdale Middle School Students Send CARE Messages

Courteous and respectful - Accepting -Responsible - Excited for learning, otherwise known as CARE, is the message embraced at Robbinsdale Middle School this year.  These words and letters were used for a schoolwide door decorating contest that provided students the opportunity to convey the strong message that RMS CARES.  The student judging team wanted to give everyone an award for the creative, artistic messages that were conveyed. 

Click here to view a slide show of the winners! 

Instrument Drive Benefits Latino students

Four Northport Elementary band students, along with their parents, were the recipients of donated instruments.  This is the third year that St. Joseph's Catholic Church has held an instrument drive to put band instruments into the hands of students.   

If you have a band or orchestra instrument collecting dust in your closet, consider donating it to Robbinsdale Area Schools.  Contact Krisanthy Sikkila at 763-504-8031 or krisanthy_sikkila@rdale.org.

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Published Authors at Armstrong High School

Congratulations to Chris Meisch, assistant principal, and Jeff Dorfsman, Armstrong's School Resource Officer, who wrote an article about how the school administration and local police department can work collaboratively to keep schools safe.  The article has been published in Campus Safety magazine and is also in the current issue of Principal Leadership.

39th Annual Cooper Arts and Craft Fair Coming Up

The 39th Cooper Arts and Craft Fair is set for Sat., October 29, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Cooper High School.  The craft fair, which is sponsored by the New Hope Women of Today, raises funds for the Lavon H. Cooper District 281 Scholarship Fund and other various district programs as well as the New Hope Women of today Community Programs.  For more information contact CooperCraftFair@NewHopeWT.org or got to www.NewHopeWT.org.

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Check out the new classes at Community Ed!  Click here to register and to learn about other opportunities!

Celebration of Change - Join us for a wonderful program that allows moms and daughters, ages 9-12, to explore and communicate about the positive changes of growing up. Mondays, Nov. 7-21, 6:30- 8:30 p.m.   PMS Media Center, $49/pair.

The Nearly Departed...Ghost Stories from the Midwest - Join us on Halloween as author J. Michael Norman shares several of his favorite ghost stories from Minnesota as well as Wisconsin. No registration required.  Mon., Oct. 31, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Rockford Road Library, $3 at the door.

Norwegian Rosemaling - Learn the art of Norwegian Rosemaling or expand your knowledge of this beautiful art form. Sat., Nov. 5, 9 a.m.-noon   Winnetka Learning Center, $45.

5. Someday soon you will have many documents.   Use Collections to create folder-like divisions.

Add a Star to a frequently used document by clicking the Star next to the title of the document. Sort your documents by Starred in the left-hand menu.

Create a collection

1. At the Documents home page, click Create and select Collections. You'll be asked to name your collection.  The collection will appear in the menu in the left-hand side of the screen.
2. To add a document to a collection, drag the title of the document to the collection.
3. The document is not removed from the main display, but the document is tagged with the name of the collection. In this way you can add a document to more than one collection.

Google Forms can be used to conduct surveys and assessments. Forms collect data that is placed in a spreadsheet.

1. From the Documents home page, click Create and select Form.
2. Consider the permissions in the gray box.
3. Give your form a name by replacing 'Untitled form'.
4. Enter question titles and select type. Indicate if it's required. Add additional questions by clicking Add item at the top of the page.
5. You can email the form or have Google create code that can be embedded into a web page.  (In SchoolFusion, be sure to click 'source' before pasting this code.)
6. View responses in a summary form (creates nice graphs) or in a spreadsheet. Look for See Responses menu in the upper right. Select Summary to see graphs, select spreadsheet to see results in a spreadsheet.