Congratulations to Cooper's DECA team! Students participated at the state tournament last month and received top honors. The team of Hunter Froelich, Adam Brady, Evan Dale, and Erin King received third place in the Marketing Plan Strategy category. Blessing Ogunyemi, Laneate Vang and Pakou Vang were in the top eight for Public Relations. Stella Hajnasiewicz, Jerusa Nyakundi, and Andrea Xiong got were in the top eight for the Learn and Earn category. Kaylee Merritt and Olivia Akinpelu received top 24 test scores for Finance. Merritt also received fifth place in the Business Finance Series and qualified for the DECA International Career Development Conference. Congratulations to all!

Fifth grade students from Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion read Spanish books to kindergarten, first and second grade students at Sonnesyn Elementary last week. Sonnesyn and district staff want students who speak Spanish at home to feel encouraged to read and write Spanish during the school day. The new partnership with RSI is the beginning of future opportunities for native Spanish speakers in the district to learn Spanish from their peers at RSI. Students also built fortune tellers to improve writing in Spanish.  

Every day, students at Zachary Lane Elementary are encouraged to be a leader. This means being helpful, sticking up for other students, taking initiative and most recently, being compassionate. Students celebrated their unique talents by creating capes and wore them to an assembly about being an "Action Hero." 3 Screens Academic Entertainment educated students about how to be a hero in elementary school. Students learned that everyone can make a difference, no matter how small it may seem. Here's to our leaders of today and tomorrow!