News Apr 26, 2018 Centennial Hopes to Secure New Playground with 2nd Annual Walkathon Centennial Elementary students are gearing up to raise money for a new playground at the school’s second annual Walkathon Friday, May 11. Organizers have set a fundraising goal of $50,000 for this year’s walkathon. The inaugural walkathon,... Read More
News Apr 4, 2018 Centennial School Counselor Kara Buerger Wins Iowa PBIS Person of the Year Congratulations to Centennial School Counselor Kara Buerger Wins Iowa PBIS Person of the Year! Kara Buerger, a counselor at Centennial Elementary School has been named Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Person of the Year! Mrs. Buerger... Read More
News Mar 1, 2018 Grading: Traditional and Standards-Referenced Southeast Polk Grading and Reporting Teaching and learning at Southeast Polk is based on identified standards. Rather than a reflection of student behavior, how much work is turned in, or unrelated task completion, grades are a reflection of... Read More
News Feb 9, 2018 Newton’s Laws of Motion Explored at Cetennial Centennial 4th grade students have been studying Newton’s three laws of motion. They had a great time learning about inertia, momentum, acceleration, forces and collisions. In the egg drop experiment, students had to construct a device that... Read More
News Feb 6, 2018 A Closer Look at School Counseling at Southeast Polk with Lori Rhodes National School Counseling Week – February 5-9 Lori Rhodes has spent 34 years in education, 24 of those years have been spent as a school counselor at Southeast Polk. Rhodes is the school counselor at Delaware Elementary... Read More
News Jan 31, 2018 Southeast Polk Receives $49,900 in Facebook Community Action Grants The Southeast Polk Community school district will receive $49,900 from Facebook as part of their Community Action Grants Program for 2018. Over the past three years, Facebook has awarded more than $300,000 in grants. The recipients have... Read More
News Jan 12, 2018 Modeling with Mathematics at Southeast Polk In order to prepare students for college and career opportunities, math teachers incorporate various problem-solving tasks. No longer is math just a series of formulas to be memorized. It is an engaging process that encourages students to... Read More
News Jan 10, 2018 Centennial Teachers Prepare to Teach Project Lead the Way Teachers are gathered today in the Centennial library to learn more about Project Lead the Way and how they are going to roll it out to our kids. Project Lead the Way is a STEM (Science, Technology,... Read More
News Dec 21, 2017 Students and Staff Seeing Benefits of New Language Arts Materials for Grades K-5 New ELA Materials are in Full Swing this Year At the beginning of this school year, Southeast Polk adopted new language arts materials. The last language arts adoption was over 10 years ago. The new literacy materials... Read More
News Dec 20, 2017 Southeast Polk Education Foundation Awards Over $29,000 In Grants The Southeast Polk Education foundation has completed their fall grant cycle. Eight recipients within the Southeast Polk School District have received grants totaling $29,025. The Education Foundation was fortunate to receive an outpouring of support throughout the... Read More
News Dec 19, 2017 Centennial Project Lead the Way – 4th Grade Explores the Human Brain In Ms. Aldrich’s 4th grade class, students made a model of the brain out of clay. They also had to identify each region of the brain and include it’s function. The students noticed that the surface of... Read More
News Dec 5, 2017 Centennial Hour of Code We kicked off December’s Hour Of Code today with Tangrams in kindergarten. We will do “real” coding next week with Kodable. They were so excited today! Read More