WDMCS Board Brief
For West Des Moines Community Schools Board of Education
Dec. 21, 2018
Valley Electives Videos
Valley High School plans to introduce several new videos to students in January. The hope is these videos will help students and families understand the variety of electives available as they plan their courses for next fall.
The 2019-20 course catalog and videos are now available online.
WDMCS Reaches Out to ICA Families
WDMCS created a special communication for Iowa Christian Academy families. Due to the difficult transition for students mid-year, we wanted to provide helpful information as they considered where to send their children second semester.
This post was shared on Facebook and has reached nearly 3,000 with approximately 1,000 engagements and a dozen shares in the last 24 hours.
Download the new WDMCS Smartphone App
Board members are invited to download our newly-launched WDMCS smartphone app. We will be promoting the app over winter break to families who will most likely be lounging at some point on a couch binge-watching Netflix and scrolling Facebook.
A formal launch and promotion will take place in January. To download the free app, go to Google Play or the Apple Store on your phone and look up "West Des Moines Community Schools".
Westridge Students to Visit Iowa Governor's Office in January
We are proud to announce that a group of Westridge Elementary kindergarten through fifth-graders will visit Governor Reynold's office on Jan. 22 to demonstrate what learning computer science can look like in elementary school.
Principal Nathan Ballagh and the students will be part of a larger press conference to launch a "Computer Science in Elementary" project for high-poverty elementary schools. This project is spearheaded by the Governor's STEM Advisory Council. Ballagh will share what students are learning about computer science and why this matters.
If you would like to know more about the press conference Jan. 22 or the project, please email Nathan Ballagh.
School/Community Relations Team
buckl@wdmcs.org
515-633-5023
Alexandra Wade
515-633-5022
Aaron Young
younga@wdmcs.org
515-633-5016
Email: scroffice@wdmcs.org
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Location: 3550 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines, IA, USA
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