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Work Session

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March 17--RHS Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS -CANCELLED
March 18-27--MN Governors Executive order for School Closure Due to COVID-19
April 10--No School
April 14--Gr 1 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
April 20--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.“  -- Peter Brougham

March 17--RHS Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
March 23-27--No School, Spring Break
April 10--No School
April 14--Gr 1 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
April 20--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
Epictetus

February 24--RHS Choir Concert, 7:30 pm
February 27--4th Gr Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
March 2--Late Start Day
March 5--Kindergarten Round-Up
March 9--RMS-CES Arts & Academics Showcase, 5-7 pm 
March 16--Board Work Session, 5:30 pm RHS
March 16--Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
 –Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

February 13--RMS-CES Band Concert, 6-9 pm RHS
February 17--No School, President's Day
February 19--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

February 3--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
February 13--RMS-CES Band Concert, 6-9 pm RHS
February 17--No School, President's Day
February 19--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

WORK SESSION

February 3--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
February 13--RMS-CES Band Concert, 6-9 pm RHS
February 17--No School, President's Day
February 19--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." -- James Baldwin

WORK SESSION

January 20--No School, Teacher Staff Dev/Work Day
January 21--Late Start Day
January 22--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
February 3--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
February 17--No School, President's Day

"They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace." – Malala Yousafzai

January 20--No School, Teacher Staff Dev/Work Day
January 21--Late Start Day
January 22--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
February 3--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
February 17--No School, President's Day

“The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. “What’s better for us?” Barack called to the people gathered in the room. “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?” -- Michelle Obama, Becoming

Dec. 23-Jan. 3 Winter Break
January 6-School Board Organizational Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
January 20-No School, Staff Dev/Work Day
January 21--Late Start Day
January 22--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
—J.K. Rowling

December 3--Gr. 2 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 12--Gr. 3 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 13--Kindergarten Concert, 1:30 pm RHS
December 16--School Board Meeting and Truth in Taxation Hearing, 6:30 pm RHS
December 23-January 3--Winter Break
January 6--Board Organizational Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous." -- Confucius

December 2--Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
December 3--Gr. 2 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 12--Gr. 3 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 13--Kindergarten Concert, 1:30 pm RHS
December 16--School Board Meeting and Truth in Taxation Hearing, 6:30 pm RHS

November 22-24-- RHS Musical, State Fair
November 26--RMS-CES Winter Band Concert, 6-8 pm RHS
November 26--Board Special Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
December 2--Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
December 3--GR. 2 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 12--GR. 3 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 13--Kindergarten Concert, 6:30 pm RHS

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

November 22-24--RHS Musical, State Fair
November 26--RMS-CES Winter Band Concert,    6-8 pm RHS
November 28-29--No School
December 3--Gr. 2 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 12--Gr. 3 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 13--Kindergarten Concert, 1:30 pm RHS

"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning." - Agnes Repplierg

November 18--Board Work Session, 5:30 pm RHS
November 18--Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
November 22-24--RHS Musical, State Fair
November 26--RMS-CES Winter Band Concert,    6-8 pm RHS
November 28-29--No School

October 28--District Choral Festival 7 pm RHS
November 4--No Classes
November 4--REAMS Parent-Teacher Day Conferences
November 7--REAMS Parent-Teacher PM Conferences
November 7--Marching Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
November 14--STEM Showcase, 5-7 pm RMS-CES

"Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. " Abraham Lincoln

Sept 30-Oct 4--Homecoming Week
October 17-18--No School
October 21--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm, RHS
October 28--District Choral Festival, 7 pm RHS

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." Anthony J. D'Angelo

Sept 30--Late Start Day (Classes Start 2 hours later)
Sept 30--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
Sept 30-Oct 4--Homecoming Week
Oct 17-18--No Classes
Oct 21--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"The more your praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate." Oprah Winfrey

August 28—RHS Open House, 4-6 pm
August 29—RMS-CES Open House, 4-6 pm
September 3—First Day of Classes for Grades 5-12
September 3, 4—Assessment Days for Grades K-4
September 5—First Day of Regular Classes for Grades K-4
September 16--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

 

"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change." Taylor Swift

Aug 5--Fall Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
Aug 19--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
Aug 28--RHS Open House, 4-6 pm
Aug 29--RMS-CES Open House, 4-6 pm

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism." -- Dr. David M. Burns

Aug 5--Fall Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
Aug 19--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
Aug 28--RHS Open House, 4-6 pm
Aug 29--RMS-CES Open House, 4-6 pm

"Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!" - Garth Brooks 

July 1-5—Galaxy Kids Program Closed
July 4–5—District Offices Closed 
July 4-6—Rockford Community Center Closed
July 15--School Board Work Session, 5:30 pm RHS
July 15—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
Aug 5—Fall Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS

"A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read." – Mark Twain

June 24--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
July 4--Holiday, District Office Closed
July 15--School Board Regular Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
August 5--Fall Activities Meetings, 6 pm RHS
August 19--School Board Regular Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” - G.K. Chesterton

May 21—REAMS Arts and Academics Showcase, 4-6 pm
May 23—RMS-CES Band Concert, 6 pm Gr 5., 7 pm Gr 6, 8 pm Gr 7/8 RHS
May 27—No School, Memorial Day
June 1—2019 Commencement, 7 pm RCC
June 4—RMS-CES Choir Concert, 6 pm Gr 5/6, 7 pm Gr 7/8 RHS
June 6—Last Day of Classes
June 17 —School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." -- Frank Zappa 

May 9--Jazz Concert, 8 pm RHS
May 15--RHS Band Concert, 8 pm RHS
May 17--RHS Pie and Pops Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
May 20--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
May 21--REAMS Arts and Academics Showcase, 4-6 pm

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself." – Madonna

April 16--JazzMN Orchestra Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
April 19--Makeup Day, School in Session
April 24--REAMS Math and Reading Night, 5:30-7:30 pm
May 4--RHS Prom
May 9--Jazz Concert, 8 pm RHS
May 15--RHS Band Concert, 8 pm RHS
May 17--RHS Choir 'Pie and Pops' Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
May 20--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“ – Marian Wright Edelman

March 19--RHS Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
March 22--No School, Staff Dev/Work Day
March 25-29--No School, Spring Break
April 11--RMS-CES Arts and Academic Showcase
April 15--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." Augustine of Hippo

March 7--Kindergarten Round up, 5:45 pm REAMS
March 18--School Board Regular Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
March 19--RHS Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
March 22--No School, Staff Dev/Work Day
March 25-29--No School, Spring Break

"There is no failure. Only feedback." -- Robert Allen

RESCHEDULED MEETING 
(Rescheduled from February 20, 2019 due to inclement weather)

March 4—Two-Hour Late Start Day
March 6—School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
March 7—Kindergarten Round-Up, 5:45 pm REAMS
March 18—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
March 19—RHS Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS

"Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has." -- Seth Godin

February 4—School Board Work Session, 7 pm RHS
February 4—Gr 9-11 Curriculum Fair 5-8 pm RHS
February 18—No School, President’s Day
February 20—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

 

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open." -- James Dewar

January 18, 2019 -- No School, Staff Dev/Work Day
January 21, 2019 -- No School, Dr. MLK Jr Day
January 22, 2019 -- 2 Hour Late Start Day
January 23, 2019 -- School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." -- Joyce Meyer

December 21-January 1—Winter Break, No School
January 7 —Board Organizational Meeting, 6:30 pm, RHS
January 18—No School, Staff Dev/Work Day
January 21—No School, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 22—Late Start Day
January 23—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm, RHS

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them." – Lady Bird Johnson

November 22 & 23—No School, Thanksgiving Break
November 27—RMS-CES Band Concert, 7 pm RHS
November 29—2nd Grade Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 10—RHS Choir Holiday Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
December 13—3rd Grade Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 14—Kindergarten Winter Program, 1:30 pm RHS
December 17—School Board Meeting and Truth in Taxation Hearing, 6:30 pm, RHS

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." – Albert Einstein

November 19—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm, RHS
November 22 & 23—No School, Thanksgiving Break
November 27—RMS-CES Band Concert, 6 pm RHS
November 29—2nd Grade Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
December 10—RHS Choir Holiday Concert, 7:30 pm RHS

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." – Marian Wright Edelman

October 18 & 19—No Classes
October 22—District Choral Festival, 7 pm RHS
November 1--STEM Showcase, 5-7 pm RMS-CES
November 1, 2--RHS Musical, If the Shoe Fits, 7 pm RHS
November 3—RHS Musical, 3 pm & 7 pm RHS
November 5—No Classes, Staff Dev/Work Day
November 5—Winter Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
November 6—Election Day
November 8—Fall Marching Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS

"If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place." -- Nora Roberts

Sept 24-26  Gr 6 to Deep Portage
Oct 1  Late Start Day (classes start 2 hours later)
Oct 1  REAMS Kindness in Chalk Event
Oct 1-5  Homecoming Week Activities
Oct 2  Gr 5 Parent-Teacher Conferences
Oct 9  Gr 6 Parent-Teacher Conferences
Oct 15  School Board Regular Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
Oct 16  Gr 7 Parent Teacher Conferences
Oct 18-19  No Classes

"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Chinese proverb

August 29--RHS Open House, 4-6 pm
August 30--Gr 5 Open House, 4-6 pm RMS
September 4--First Day of Classes, Gr 5-12
September 4-5--Assessment Days, Gr K-4
September 6--First Day of Classes, Gr K-4
September 17--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion." Simon Sinek

August 6—Fall Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
August 20—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
August 29—RHS Open House, 4-6 pm
August 30—Gr 5 Open House, 4-6 pm, RMS
September 4—First Day of Classes for Grades 5-12
September 4 & 5—Assessment Days for Grades K-4
September 6—First Day of Regular Classes for Grades K-4

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." William Shakespeare

July 1-7 Community Center Closed
July 2-6 Galaxy Kids Program Closed
July 4-6 District Offices Closed
July 23 School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." - Rabindranath Tagore

June 25--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
July 1-7—Rockford Community Center Closed
July 2-6—Galaxy Kids Program Closed
July 4 –6—District Offices Closed
July 23—School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education." -- Plato

May 22--REAMS Arts and Academics Showcase, 4-6 pm
May 24--RMS-CES Band Concerts, 5th Grade-6 pm, 6th Grade-7 pm, 7th and 8th Grade- 8 pm RHS
May 28--No School, Memorial Day 
June 2--Commencement Ceremony, 7 pm RCC
June 7--Last Day of Classes
June 18-- School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t." -- Bill Nye

May 5 -- Prom
May 7 --School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
May 10 --Spring Jazz Concert, 8 pm RHS
May 21 --School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world." -- Dick Cheney

April 10, 2018--RMS-CES Arts & Academic Showcase, 5-7 pm
April 16, 2018--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
May 7, 2018--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
May 5, 2018--Prom
May 10, 2018--Jazz Band Concert, 8 pm RHS

“When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.” - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

March 22--RHS Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
March 26-April 2--No Classes, Spring Break
April 10--RMS-CES Arts and Academics Showcase, 5-7pm
April 16--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."  Marian Wright Edelman

Feb 26 & Mar 1  Gr K-4 Parent-Teacher Conferences, REAMS
Feb 26  Spring Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
Mar 5  RHS Choir Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
Mar 6  Gr 4 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
Mar 8  Kindergarten Roundup, 5:45-7 pm REAMS
Mar 9  No School, Staff Work Day
Mar 12  Late Start Day
Mar 17  Community Expo, 9am-Noon, RHS

"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow."
William Pollard 

Feb 8--Gr 1 Spotlight Concert 6:30 pm RHS
Feb 12-17-- Annual Sno-Week Activities
Feb 15--RMS Band Concert, 6 pm RHS
Feb 19--No School, President's Day
Feb 21--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers." - Helen Keller

Jan 25--Gr 9-12 Parent-Teacher Conferences
Jan 29--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
Feb 8--Gr 1 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
Feb 12-17--Annual Sno-Week Activities
Feb 15--RMS Band Concert, 6 pm RHS
Feb 19--No School, President's Day
Feb 21--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.” -  Nikos Kazantzakis

Jan 15-No Classes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 16-Late Start Day
Jan 22-District Choral Festival, 7 pm RHS
Jan 24--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughan

Dec. 22, 2017-Jan. 2, 2018--Winter Break, No Classes
Jan. 8, 2018--School Board Organizational Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
Jan. 15, 2018--No School, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan. 17, 2018--School Board Regular Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
Martin Luther King, Jr

Nov. 23-24  No School, Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 28  Gr 6-8 Fall Band Concert, 7 pm RHS
Nov. 30  Gr. 2 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS
Dec. 1  No Classes
Dec. 4  School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
Dec. 4  Gr 3-4 Family Fun Night, 6:30 pm, REAMS
Dec. 5  Gr K-2 Family fun Night, 6:30 pm REAMS
Dec. 11 RHS Choir Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
Dec. 14  Gr 3 Spotlight Concert, 6:30 pm RHS

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." -- Malcolm X

November 16-17    RHS Musical, Hello Dolly, 7 pm RHS
November 18  RHS Musical, Hello Dolly, 2 pm and 7 pm RHS
November 23-24  Thanksgiving Break
December 1  No School, Staff Dev/Work Day

"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter." - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

November 2--STEM Showcase, 5-7 pm RMS
November 6--No Classes
November 6--Parent-Teacher Day Conferences, Gr K-4, REAMS
November 6--Winter Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
November 7--Election Day
November 9--Parent-Teacher Conferences, Gr. K-4 REAMS
November 9--Marching Band Concert, 7:30 pm RHS
November 20--Regular School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS

"I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state." -- Denise Juneau
 

September 18-22--Homecoming Week
September 25-27--Gr 6 Deep Portage Trip
October 2--Late Start Day
October 2--School Board Work Session, 6:30 pm RHS
October 16--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
October 17--Parent-Teacher Conferences, Gr 5-12
October 19-20-- No Classes

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." -- B.B. King

August 30   RHS Open House, 4-6 pm
August 31  GR 5 Open House, 4-6 pm RMS
September 5  First Day of Classes for Gr 5-12
September 5 & 6 Assessment Days for Gr K-4
September 7  First Day of Regular Classes for Gr K-4
September 18  School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
September 18-22  Homecoming Week

"Around here, we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

  -- Walt Disney

August 7--Fall Activities Meeting, 6 pm RHS
August 21--School Board Meeting, 6:30 pm RHS
September 5--First Day of Classes, Gr. 5-12
September 5-6--Assessment Days, Gr K-4

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." -- Conrad Hall