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DAVENPORT-Three teachers with the district here celebrated their retirements at the conclusion of the 2020-21 school year after a combined 102 years here with the district. Jean Parsons, Karen Brewster and Rawleigh Fisk will head out of their educational careers, with most having plans to remain in the area in their post-career lives. Parsons was Spanish teacher Jean Parsons was employed by the district full-time in 1984, but was a substitute teacher for seven years prior,...
DAVENPORT –High school principal Chad Prewitt will be the school district’s next superintendent after Jim Kowalkowski retires following the 2021-22 school year, which the school board officially approved at a special June 9 meeting. Prewitt will take the reins after 10 years as Davenport High’s principal and 19 years in education overall. “I never really thought I’d be superintendent, but there was never a thought of leaving,” Prewitt said. “My family loves it here, and I couldn’t ask for a better situation.” Prewitt’s family...
REARDAN – It has been said that behind every good school is a great principal, and this could not be more true for Reardan Elementary. Out of his 47 years in education, Dwight Cooper has been Reardan Elementary's principal for the last 25 years. Throughout his time as principal, Cooper has made deep connections with students and staff, pursued opportunities of excellence and gone above and beyond to ensure that every student and teacher in our school strives to be their b...
REARDAN – In light of COVID and ever-changing guidelines, the Reardan-Edwall School District created the Options Program which housed approximately 130 students, kindergarten through 12th grade, during the 2020-2021 school year. This program provided a way for families to teach their children in a non-traditional setting. Moving forward to the 21-22 school year, the district applied for and received the green light to open an Alternative Learning School. The Options Program will serve a variety of students, K-12, across t...
DAVENPORT—Superintendent Jim Kowalkowski will sign off on his educational career following the 2021-22 school year, he informed the school board via a resignation letter that was accepted at the board’s May 24 meeting. Kowalkowski’s retirement, which becomes official June 30, 2022, will come after 15 years as superintendent here. “I have been very fortunate to have served as your superintendent since 2007,” Kowalkowski’s letter read. “These past 14 years have been very rewarding and I have been blessed to work with an amazi...
DAVENPORT – Seven department heads or representatives gave updates and shared goals/requests at the School Board’s quarterly meeting Monday, May 17. The presentations followed the approval of the consent agenda, which included hiring Morgan Hunt and Kyra Arland as elementary teachers, Tracy Winzer as secondary ELA, Jennifer Hargrave as ALE/Options Program teacher/director and Tim Zeiler as junior high boys basketball head coach. Sarah Sweetser gave a food services presentation and described how food service workers have tra...
REARDAN – The Reardan-Edwall School District will be choosing a new mascot by next school year, the district announced Monday, May 3. The “Indians” mascot was among the Native American monikers banned in House Bill 1356, which was just signed into state law. The bill offered an exception for schools to use a Native-related mascot if the district is in or borders a county with some or all of a tribal reservation, if said tribe gives permission. However, superintendent Eric Sobotta announced in a Facebook post on the distr...
REARDAN--The Reardan-Edwall School District will be choosing a new mascot by next school year, the district announced today. The “Indians” mascot was among the Native American monikers banned in House Bill 1356, which was just signed into state law. The bill offered an exception for schools to use a Native-related mascot if the district is in or borders a county with some or all of a tribal reservation, if said tribe gives permission. However, superintendent Eric Sobotta announced in a Facebook post on the district's pag...
DAVENPORT – To adjust for strange schedules caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the middle and high school here have been utilizing a quarter system, as opposed to a regular, seven-period day. A recent survey conducted among students indicated that a majority prefer a possible future quarter system where there are just three to four classes taken at a time split throughout the year, principal Chad Prewitt shared with the school board at the board’s April 26 meeting. Only seventh-graders favored a normal, seven-period return to...
REARDAN – Jamie Mikelson, the current elementary principal in Oroville, Washington, will be heading to Reardan Elementary school to take the same position next year. She was the chosen candidate amongst 16 applicants and three finalists, and her hiring was accepted by the school board at the board's March 31 meeting. Mikelson is a native of Lincoln County and graduated from Davenport High School before getting her bachelor's degree at Carroll College in Montana and her m...
