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OGMS Welcomes Our New Staff!

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Dr. Julie Nikolas, Assistant Principal - I am excited to be a part of CFSD! I choose to serve in education because I believe the mind is beautiful & I love helping others. I grew up in South Dakota & earned my professional degrees in Educational Leadership from the University of South Dakota. I completed undergraduate degrees at Northern State University in elementary/middle school education and K-12 Music Education. This year I am blessed to serve as the Assistant Principal at OGMS and as a Learning Support Specialist for the District. I dedicated my professional life to 22+ years classroom teaching and 15+ years leadership, supervision, human resources, and training & development. I love learning. I am a widow but have a wonderfully supportive and fun family with two children enrolled in college. I love to inspire others to optimal performance and build healthy relationships, utilizing creative problem-solving solutions, while being attentive to detail. I look forward to…
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Thank You Peer Tutors

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In the article "Increase Student Engagement and Achievement with
Peer Tutors," April 2011, the results are clear that peer tutoring is an effective way to help motivate students and help them "learn how to learn" helping the tutor develop a stronger content knowledge and motivation as a result of their efforts with their peers.Peer tutors will be back in force next year and we are hoping that we can find other ways to have students feel engaged and lead.Look for opportunities through community schools, the Panther Den, and Wednesday mornings coming in the fall to engage your child with helping his/her peers.
Peer tutors this year were: Izzy Adams
Romit Banerjee
Leila Dahdal
Josie Decker
Sydney Loudermilk
Sarah Randall
Annika Revis
Ellie Robinson
Max Rubin-Toles
Sophie Sethi
Simone Gelety
Mac Glaesser
Emily Gruber
Naomi Holtzman
Nathan Kuo
Safia Manne
Maggie Proebsting
Noah Wellman
Alexandra Zega

We thank Mrs. Altman for her support of our Peer Tutoring program.

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Principal's Message

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February is here and we have a busy month ahead as we invite 5th grade families from our elementary feeder schools to join us for transition meetings, and we meet with our 8th grade parents to share promotion happenings. We are excited for these two upcoming events.

As we finished the month of January and closed out our theme of goal setting we have moved forward with our new theme, Digital Citizenship. This new theme supports students remembering that when using technology there is an expected etiquette that should be followed before pushing send. Ask your child to share throughout the month what he/she is learning about being a good digital citizen.

We continue working to support our Site Improvement Plan through our professional development teams at OGMS. We have staff creating Problem Based Learning units for your child(ren), we have Systems Thinking Tools being woven into lessons, we have students (with the support of their instructors) creating Growth Mindset messaging for mo…
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