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ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီး စံၢ်လီၤဖဲစုထွဲပှာ်ဘျးစဲတခါအဖီခိၣ် ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်တလီၤတံၢ်လီၤဆဲး မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢ တပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-793-4700 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.

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Our AVID students recently visited Bremer Bank for a day of fun and information. The trip offered students a firsthand look at the working world and introduced them to professionals eager to share their career journeys. The visit began with Bremer staff sharing their personal career stories, highlighting the different paths taken. Students then broke into small groups to discuss practical topics like soft skills, what makes a strong resume, and how to approach challenges in the workplace. These sessions let students ask questions and get advice they can use as they prepare for their careers.

Connect with your counselor and take 15 minutes to apply here:

Are you interested in STEM? Are you a junior? Do you want to make $16,000 your senior year of high school? Our school partners with Genesys Works, a program that provides paid internships in STEM opportunities at major corporations in the Twin Cities like Target, General Mills, and Medtronic!

For more information, join us and (Genesys Works optional) for more information by attending an Information Session–To Be Determined.

For additional questions, contact GW at GWTCRecruitment@genesysworks.org or Mr. Utecht

jerome.utecht@spps.org 651-744-3210

State and federal laws require that all English Learner (EL) students are assessed yearly to measure their English reading, writing, listening and speaking progress.

Minnesota uses the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs test as its annual assessment. EL students who receive special education services and who meet certain guidelines may take the WIDA Alternate ACCESS test instead.

These tests are used to see if students meet the WIDA English Language Development Standards and if a student is ready to exit from SPPS’s EL program.

All SPPS EL students in grades K-12 will be given the ACCESS for ELLs or WIDA Alternate ACCESS tests between January 27 - March 21, 2025.

If you have questions about your student’s participation, please reach out to your child’s principal.

For more information on English language proficiency assessments and the MDE Parent/Guardian Participation Guide and Refusal form, please go to:

• ACCESS Family Test Information website: spps.org/about/departments/research-evaluation-assessment/test-coordination/access-family-information

• MDE Family Testing Information website: education.mn.gov/MDE/fam/tests/

At Harding, the ACCESS test will start on February 3rd.

Please reach out to Micah Zielske, micah.zielske@spps.org if you have any questions.

The ACT test will be online this year and take place over a couple of days. Students will be assigned to a testing day between March 11-17. This year there are 4 multiple choice timed sections for the ACT; English, math, reading, and science. We are not offering the writing portion of the test. If you are in 11th and would like to take the ACT please use the link to sign up.

If you have questions please reach out to Micah Zielske, micah.zielske@spps.org

Over the break Knight Crew was able to get together and enjoy the time with one another. From cooking breakfast, swimming, fun activities, and lunch. It's not often that Knight Crew gets a time to celebrate their hard work together. A cold Thursday turned warm with the touch of everyone's collaboration.

Prior to the break, Knight Crew members were out shoveling snow for the neighborhood. A friendly neighbor was touched by the nice gesture of what the students had to offer and were in tears of joy. If there's snow, Knight Crew will be out shoveling to knock out some service hours and to put a smile on people's face.

Knight Crew's top 3 service hour leaders from quarter 1. [left to right:] Pearl Vang (26 hours), Summer Hang (27), and Ryan Thor (20.5)

What is most important in your child’s education right now?

Dab tsi yog qhov tseem ceeb tshaj plaws ntawm koj tus me nyuam txoj kev kawm tam sim no?

အခဲအံၤ တၢ်အရ့ဒိၣ် ကတၢၢ်လၢနဖိတၢ်ကူၣ်ဘၣ်ကူၣ်သ့အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ်.

Waa maxay waxa xilligaan la joogo ugu muhiimsan waxbarashada ilmahaaga?

En este momento, ¿qué es lo más importante para usted en la educación de su niño?

Our next Family Engagement Meeting is on January 22 at 5:00. There will be a light meal and then we will start the meeting at 5:30. Please join us as we engage with each other and learn about the things that are happening at Harding during quarter 3.

The Harding office phone number is 651-793-4700. School office hours are 8:00-3:30. If you need to reach a teacher or staff member directly, please contact them through email.

All staff email addresses are: firstname.lastname@spps.org and can be found on Harding’s online staff directory.

Please remember to email our Attendance Clerk at Gertraud.Kussmaul@spps.org or call the attendance hotline each day your student is absent from school. If your child is absent from school, it is necessary for a parent/guardian to call the Attendance Hotline at 651-744-3063. Please leave the following information:

-Student name

-Student number

-Day and date(s) of absences

-Reason for the absence

If you need to pick up your student early, before the end of the school day, please call the office at least 2 hours in advance of the departure time.

Shanie Xiong (A-Ha) shanie.xiong@spps.org or 651-744-1428

Teresa Savage (Hb-K & P-S) teresa.savage@spps.org or 651-744-3506

Marianna Sullivan (L-O) marianna.sullivan@spps.org or 651-744-1907

Mana Vue (T-V) mana.vue@spps.org or 651-744-3152

James Lo (W-Z) james.lo@spps.org or 651-744-3664

Dan Kennedy (American Indian Counselor) daniel.kennedy@spps.org or 651-744-1160

Jamie Shady (CCC) james.shady@spps.org or 651-744-3599

Katie Kovacovich (CCC) kkovacovich.ach@spps.org or 651-744-3599

Lisa Mills (Counseling Clerk) lisa.mills@spps.org or 651-744-3067

Anthony Chlebecek, Principal anthony.chlebecek@spps.org

Evelyn Nordquist, Assistant Principal (9th Grade) Evelyn.Nordquist@spps.org

Craig Guidry, Assistant Principal (10th Grade) Craig.Guidry@spps.org

Xong Moua, Assistant Principal (11th Grade) Xong.Moua@spps.org

Jayson Spence, Assistant Principal (12th Grade) Jayson.Spence@spps.org

Kelly Brown, Behavioral Intervention Specialist (9th Grade) kelly.brown@spps.org

Phoenix Cobb, Behavioral Intervention Specialist (10th Grade) phoenix.cobb@spps.org

Essa Adam, Behavioral Intervention Specialist (11th grade) essa.adam@spps.org

Steve Solaja, Behavioral Intervention Specialist (12th Grade) stephan.solaja@spps.org