Hamline Elementary

December Question of the Month

Superintendent Interviews: Families are Invited

Husky Pack Wins Award from SPPS Communications!

Important Upcoming Dates

Hamline to Hamline Collaboration Social Media: Follow us!

"All-In" Documentary streaming December 16th

Next Newsletter: Friday, December 20th

Translation Information

On December 16-18, the three finalists for superintendent will visit Saint Paul Public Schools to meet the community and participate in a public interview with the SPPS Board of Education. The finalists will visit the district on the following dates:

• Monday, December 16: Dr. Rhoda Mhiripiri-Reed
• Tuesday, December 17: Dr. Brenda Cassellius
• Wednesday, December 18: Dr. Stacie Stanley

Learn more about each finalist at spps.org/superintendentsearch. Please see the schedule below for more information about the candidate visits.

Virtual Meet the Candidates Sessions

SPPS parents and guardians are invited to attend virtual Meet the Candidate sessions on December 16-18 from 12:15-12:45 p.m. each day. Use this Google Meet link to attend any of the virtual sessions. These meetings will be in English; language support will be offered during the public interviews in the evening.

Attendees of the virtual sessions will watch a live conversation with each candidate and be asked to share their impressions via an online form. Completed forms will be shared with school board members for review before they select their preferred candidate. Impression forms are available at spps.org/superintendentsearch.

Public Board Interviews

The Board of Education will interview one finalist each evening, December 16-18 from 6-7:30 p.m., at the SPPS administration building (360 S. Colborne St.). All are welcome to attend or watch the livestream at spps.eduvision.tv/LiveSched.aspx. Attendees will be able to fill out an impression form for each candidate, each evening until 7:45 p.m.

Simultaneous interpretation will be offered in Hmong, Spanish, Karen and Somali at 360 S. Colborne St. To request interpretation in another language, please contact the Office of Family Engagement at 651-744-2769. Childcare will be provided.

Board of Education Deliberations

The Board will deliberate in a public meeting after the final interview on Wednesday, December 18. If the Board does not select their preferred candidate that evening, they will resume deliberation and announce the preferred candidate at the Regular Board of Education meeting on Thursday, December 19, at 5:30 p.m. The new superintendent’s start date will be determined during contract discussions after winter break.

Thank you for your dedication to Saint Paul Public Schools. Your participation over the next week is greatly appreciated as the SPPS Board of Education makes this important decision.

The Hamline Elementary Husky Pack's Facebook page won an award from SPPS Communications! We're social media stars!

Thanks to our Husky Pack for always doing such a great job supporting the Hamline Elementary Community!

December 19th: PreK-2 Assembly, 3:00 in the gym

December 20th: Grades 3-5 Assembly, 3:00 in the gym

December 23rd-January 3rd: Winter Break, NO SCHOOL PreK-12

January 10th: Coffee with the Principal, 9:30-10:00 in the Family Room (1103)

January 23rd: Winter Open House for prospective families, 10:00-11:30 during the school day

January 23rd: Winter Open House & Hamline Elementary Family Night, 5:00-7:00pm

February: Black History Month

February 10th: National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID), events during the school day

Keep up with all the great programming offered through the Hamline to Hamline Collaboration!

Over the last three years, Saint Paul Public Schools has been improving literacy instruction to positively impact student outcomes in reading. SPPS partnered with Captivate Media to document the district’s literacy journey in a new four-part docuseries: "All In: The Saint Paul Public Schools Literacy Journey"

"The fact that a school is making a series about how kids in their system struggled and how they're changing in order to change that is a really big deal." - Emily Hanford, "Sold a Story" podcast host

Starting Monday, December 16: The documentary is available to watch online.

Watch here!

We will be sending out another newsletter on Friday, December 20th with winter break resources, news from the Husky Pack, and more!

English:

Prefer a language other than English? You can open the newsletter link and click the button on the top to have it translated into many different languages. Please know that the translation function may be inaccurate or incomplete. If you have any questions, please call us at 651-293-8715.

Karen:

ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီး စံၢ်လီၤဖဲစုထွဲပှာ်ဘျးစဲတခါအဖီခိၣ် ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်တလီၤတံၢ်လီၤဆဲး မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢ တပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-XXX-XXXX န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.

Somali:

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Hmong:

Puas xav tau ua lwm hom lus? Nej qhib txoj kab mus rau hauv daim ntawv xov xwm thiab nias lub pob nyob rau saum toj ces yuav muaj txhais ua ntau hom lus. Thov nco ntsoov tias cov lus txhais no yuav tsis raug txhua lo los sis txhais tiav tiav. Yog nej muaj lus nug, thov hu rau peb ntawm 651-293-8715.

Spanish:

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