I AM 742: Drew Erickson
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 It's Time!
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Kindergarten Enrollment and Preschool Registration for the 2019-20 school year kick off in January!
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3 Ways to Enroll in Kindergarten! (Jan. 15-30)
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1. Attend an Enrollment Open House
Evening Open Houses
5 - 6:30 p.m. (Presentation at 5:30 p.m.)
- Clearview: Tue, Jan 29
- Discovery: Tue, Jan 15
- Kennedy: Thu, Jan 17
- Lincoln: Wed, Jan 23
- Madison: Thu, Jan 24
- Oak Hill: Wed, Jan 30
- Talahi: Mon, Jan 28
- Westwood: Wed, Jan 16
Morning Open Houses
8 - 10 a.m. (Presentation at 9 a.m.)
Can’t attend? Call your school to
schedule a tour.
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2. Go Online
Not able to attend an Enrollment Open House? Enroll your soon-to-be kindergartner from the comfort of your home by using our NEW online enrollment feature. Go to www.isd742.org/enrollment.
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3. Visit the Welcome Center
Looking for additional support while enrolling? All families are invited to enroll their child at the Welcome Center. Children are welcome to attend, but need not be present. When enrolling your child, please bring your child’s birth certificate or similar document verifying age.
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Welcome Center
District Administration Office
1201 S. Second St.
Waite Park, MN 56387
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Monday - Friday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
CLOSED Jan. 21
320-370-8116
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3 Ways to Register for Preschool
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1. Attend an Open House
Visit our schools, meet teachers and register at one of the many open houses. 5 - 6:30 p.m.
- Clearview: Tue, Jan 29
- Discovery: Tue, Jan 15
- Kennedy: Thu, Jan 17
- Lincoln: Wed, Jan 23
- Madison: Thu, Jan 24
- Oak Hill: Wed, Jan 30
- Quarryview: Mon, Jan 14
- Talahi: Mon, Jan 28
- Westwood: Wed, Jan. 16
2. Mail or Deliver Application
Mail-in registrations will be accepted after open house dates. Registration forms can be delivered or mailed to:
District 742 Preschool
800 S. Seventh St.
Waite Park, MN 56387
3. Call Us
Phone registrations will be accepted after open house dates. Call 320-370-8250
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 Exceptional Educational Support Staff
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The Nov. 14 Educational Support Staff Awards (ESS) opened with a welcome address from Mark Schmitz, executive director at Resource Training & Solutions. Ken Anderson, chair of the Resource Training & Solutions Board of Directors, also extended his congratulations to the honorees. Over 340 attended the annual event. Schools and districts across Resource's central Minnesota region nominate award recipients based on suggested criteria that includes knowledge of work responsibilities, demonstration of safety, cultivation of respect, acting as a positive role model, displaying genuine concern for others, and making a difference in the lives of students, staff, and the community.
Congratulations to:
- Bruce Brantley, South Junior High
- Lorie Passe, South Junior High
- Jane Vise, South Junior High
- Lora Schlangen, South Junior High
- Jill Kent, Clearview Elementary
- Michelle Hommerding, North Junior High
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 I AM 742: Alumna Sara Algoe
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 Curiosity is human nature, and it can be a powerful driving force. For 1994 Tech High School alumna, Sara Algoe, curiosity is not only her motivation but a craving to learn more about human nature itself. Algoe yearns to discover how emotions tie to the physical and mental well-being of human beings. She began to feed that curiosity through her research around one word – gratitude.
In high school, she paid attention to social interactions. Algoe was fascinated with how one person could walk into the room and the mood would shift and how the trajectory of the interaction would change whether the reaction was positive or negative.
“I was always a people watcher,” laughs Algoe, looking back on her high school days.
“Emotions dictate our lives,” she explains. “Many people will recognize that, but others won’t. Really, emotions guide our behavior, our thinking and what we do next.”
At the University of Virginia, Algoe obtained her Ph.D. in social psychology with an expertise in emotions-particularly gratitude and how it works between people, something she had studied as a graduate student.
“What I was really curious ... about [was] the possibility that emotions coordinate our actions with other people,” says Algoe. “Our gratitude is a signal that … the emotional response prompts us to action ourselves. My work actually shows us how gratitude ... binds us closer to other people. But, with me ‘nerding out’ on the science side of it … I ended up doing a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).” Read more.
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 Now Registering!
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2019-20 Early Childhood Classes
District 742 Early Childhood Education offers a wide range of classes and programs for parents and young children, birth to kindergarten entrance. Check out the upcoming opportunities available to your family!
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 St. Cloud Tech High School Update
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View the most recent School Board presentation update and the latest drone footage.
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 McKinley Celebrates 25 Years With the VA
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McKinley-ALC students gather in the early morning at the St. Cloud Veterans Hospital sporting their volunteer shirts and name tags. They venture to the Veterans Affairs Hospital (VA) twice a month to reconnect with veterans, some whom they now call friends.
Kathy Lyerly and Mike Myers-Schleif, McKinley service learning project supervisors, await the students. They laugh and joke with each other. It’s a light, fun atmosphere. Lyerly began the partnership between St. Cloud Area School District and the VA 25 years ago. She and Myers-Schleif have been overseeing it together for 22 years.
Today, principal Alicia Fischer is visiting. It’s her first time to participate with the students as their new principal at McKinley.
Principal Alicia Fischer decorates cookies with the students.
“This is a long-standing relationship that we really take pride in,” says Fischer. “One of the pieces I enjoy is that it really sheds light on what an ALC [Alternative Learning Center] is and [provides] authentic, alternative ways for kids to learn skills that we know will translate into a career and the workplace. … It’s exciting to see students in a different light and outside the academic walls, take the skills they’ve learned and really translate them into helping our veterans and our community.”
The partnership to create a service learning project started on a whim, according to Lyerly. A call to the VA was a shot in the dark, but the VA agreed.
“The VA just welcomed us,” she explains. “Every year it changes a little bit. We just roll with it.”
What gives testimony to the success of the learning project is when Lyerly or Myers-Schleif have past students ask if the program is still going. For many, it is their most memorable moment in high school.
“I can be at Sam’s Club,” says Lyerly, “and someone will come up to me and ask, ‘Are you still doing the VA? Can I come out?’ And these are 30-year-olds! The guy that trims my trees-almost 40-still asks … It is life changing for these kids, the stories they walk away with, the memories they have, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. I couldn’t have touched that in the classroom. They have volunteerism embedded in their souls.”
Plogger calls bingo for the veterans and students.
Each time the students volunteer it includes bingo and bowling, but also a themed event such as frosting Thanksgiving cookies to serve the veterans, decorating for the upcoming holiday or making Memorial Day pins. Read more.
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