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Probe ware changing Physics at the high school

Hiawatha Collegiate High School’s Physics program is using new innovative technology this fall that is greatly improving the way students analyze and assess data.Physics teacher Alicia Gruenwald requested that the network purchase probe ware, and eight Vernier Labquest2 devices and sensors were bought for the class (and for other science classes [...]

Art teacher engages learners with TAB

“Good morning, friends,” Ms. Micayla Irmiter says as her third-graders settle in around the art-room carpet.“Good morning, Ms. Micayla,” they say.Just before 8 a.m., her first session of the day, Micayla asks her Hiawatha Leadership Academy-Northrop students to engage in a “Turn and Talk” activity while she retrieves a white board [...]

Owls prepare to run Girls on the Run 5K

It all comes down to Saturday. This is what they’ve trained for — a little over 3.1 miles, better known as a 5K. The Girls on the Run 5K at the Mall of America, to be exact.Not even a little rain could keep the Hiawatha Leadership Academy-Morris Park girls and their [...]

Fifth-graders share human rights monologues

Group by group they came to the front of Ms. Mandy Williams’ fifth-grade reading classroom at Hiawatha College Prep-Kingfield with some pretty important assignments in their hands.This classroom — and several other fifth-grade classrooms — had read a wonderful book, “Esperanza Rising,” by Pam Muñoz Ryan, which tells the story of [...]

Help us build school libraries

Most of us have a book that changed our lives when we were children. It made us think differently, dream bigger, imagine something new.At Hiawatha Academies, we are working to give our scholars the opportunity to make many more of those literary discoveries by building school libraries at each of our [...]

Reflecting on recent tragedies

In a world where we are experiencing various attacks on our collective humanity – with the continued violence against our trans, black and brown, Jewish and immigrant communities — we often feel overwhelmed by the magnitude and complexity of what it means to live in this time and place. We, at [...]