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CITY, N.D. – (NewsDakota.com) The Valley City Public School District is working to achieve goals to improve the learning and teaching environment in all of their schools.
Superintendent Josh Johnson touched on three of those goals during a school board meeting. Meanwhile, the school board is in the middle of a book study called “Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division” Johnson said the goal is to enhance the relationship with everyone in the school district. One question focuses on, what are the most important characteristics of a positive school culture?
Johnson talked about a recent inspection of the buildings in the school district.
He addressed the importance of parent/teacher conference attendance.
Johnson also talked about the upcoming staff professional development day and the focus of the presentation by a Safe & Civil Schools speaker.
In other news, the school board recognized students Maggie Oberlander and Abby Slyter for their great performance in the Student Congress competition.
And the board also issued its first Staff Recognition Award to Head Custodian Mary St. Denis during their regular meeting on November 14th.
Front row: L to R VCHS student Maggie Oberlander, VCHS Speech Advisor Nick Lee and VCHS student Abby Slyter.
Here are the results for 2016 NDHSAA Student Congress/NSDA ND Roughrider District National Qualifying Tournament:
On November 3rd and 4th Valley City High School attended the 46th annual NDHSAA Student Congress tournament. It was supposed to be held at the Capital Building, however, due to protesters and security issues we were there for competition only Thursday.
On Friday, competition resumed at the Baymont Inn and Suites in Mandan, ND (formerly known as the 7 Seas). Fourteen students attended the tournament (which is the most students from VCHS in many years).
Student Advisor Nick Lee said we had quite the successful day placing 5th as a team. 4th place was West Fargo 3rd place was Dickinson and 2nd place was Fargo Davies.
Richardton-Taylor placed 1st in the team sweepstakes.
He said VCHS has not placed in the team sweepstakes in Student Congress since 2005 (team sweepstakes is top 5 teams).
Lee said we had many individual placers. They are as follows:
Luke Plagens- 8th place (House VI)
Makayla Nehlich- 8th place (House V)
Alexa Uecker- 4th place (House V)
Sharon Michael- 3rd place (House IV)
Rose Marcellus- 8th place (House II)
Maggie Oberlander- 1st Place State Champion (House I)
Abby Slyter- 1st place State Champion (House I) — tied with Maggie Oberlander
Mikey Meester- 7th place (Senate)
At the NSDA District tournament we saw success too:
Mikey Meester and Erik Johnson competed in Senate and advanced to the Senate Final chamber on the 2nd day of competition.
Abby Slyter, Maggie Oberlander, Makayla Nehlich, Rose Marcellus, Sharon Michael, and Alexa Uecker competed in House. Oberlander, Nehlich, and Slyter advanced to House Finals on the 2nd day of competition. Slyter is an alternate to the National Speech and Debate tournament to be held in Birmingham, Alabama in June of 2017.
