🚍 We're Hiring Bus Drivers! 🚍
Join our team and make a difference in our community! Earn $31 per route or $62 per day, with health insurance available at a discounted rate. Our district will guide you through the paid training process. Substitutes are also needed. Apply today and help us ensure our students get to school safely!
For more information and to apply, visit: https://knoxville.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=71
(Applications can also be picked up at the District Office)
🚍 We're Hiring Bus Drivers! 🚍
Join our team and make a difference in our community! Earn $31 per route or $62 per day, with health insurance available at a discounted rate. Our district will guide you through the paid training process. Substitutes are also needed. Apply today and help us ensure our students get to school safely!
For more information and to apply, visit: https://knoxville.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=71
(Applications can also be picked up at the District Office)
📅 Mark Your Calendars 📅
We want to welcome all of our students and families to an Open House on Thursday, August 22nd, from 4:00-6:00 PM. All school buildings will be open for you to come and say hello to your child's teacher, check out the building, and build excitement for the 2024-2025 school year! We can't wait to see you all soon!
Add this event to your calendar here: https://bit.ly/3Y93pRM
It's less than 2 weeks away! The Back to School Bash is happening soon!
When: July 31st 3pm-6pm
Where: High School Commons
What: Registration Assistance
KCSD staff members will be available on-site to help you with school registration. You will also have an opportunity meet some of our community partners and learn about their organizations and how they may be able to help you!
🚍 We're Hiring Bus Drivers! 🚍
Join our team and make a difference in our community! Earn $31 per route or $62 per day, with health insurance available at a discounted rate. Our district will guide you through the paid training process. Substitutes are also needed. Apply today and help us ensure our students get to school safely!
For more information and to apply, visit: https://knoxville.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=71
(Applications can also be picked up at the District Office)
Mark your calendars! The Back to School Bash is happening soon!!
When: July 31st 3pm-6pm
Where: High School Commons
What: Registration assistance
KCSD staff members will be available on-site to help you with school registration.
You will also have an opportunity meet some of our community partners and learn about their organizations and how they may be able to help you!
We are excited to announce that Jory Houser will be the Principal at West Elementary! Here is an introductory statement from Mr. Houser:
"I am very honored and excited to join West Elementary as your new Principal. My passion has always been to assist as many students as possible. It led me to start my career in education in school counseling so that I could broaden my impact on students and work with students multiple years in a row to build relationships with them and their families. I have previously worked in elementary, middle, and high school. I have education experience in the USA, Turkey, Mexico and China that have helped me grow as an educator. I have experience in urban and rural school districts that assist me in bringing ideas to the table. I have also worked at court ordered institutions for youth. I hope these varied experiences will enhance my impact in this position."
Mr. Houser has served as the assistant principal at Crocker Elementary in Ankeny for the past four years, and he is returning home to Marion County. We are thrilled that he chose Knoxville and look forward to introducing him to our community!
With this new addition, we do want to also recognize and appreciate Mrs. Amy Taylor for her leadership of West Elementary over the last two years.
Please help us welcome Doug Hatch as the first Head Girls Wrestling Coach in Knoxville school history!
Don't forget to join us for the RABGRAI Town Hall Meeting at KPAC on Wednesday May 29th at 6:00pm.
KCSD dismissing 2-hours early Tues. May 21 due to weather. KMS storm shelter will be open. Please use KMS entrance.
Mark your calendars for the Annual Retired Teachers' Appreciation Social organized by The Knoxville Education Foundation!
Dear KCSD Panther Family:
We are very excited to announce an initiative for the 2024-2025 school year that will have a major, positive impact on KCSD Activities. In partnership with the Iowa Media Network, the GoKnoxvilleTV network will launch and broadcast home and away contests throughout the school year with Dewayne Cook serving as lead broadcaster. Dewayne has been the Voice of GoSCCTV - the South Central Conference Network - the past 2 years. Since the start of the 2022-2023 school year, GoSCCTV has been video broadcasting many of our athletic events in addition to creating content of several other activity groups within each school in the conference.
What does this mean? KCSD will have awesome livestream coverage of our home and away events for athletics, performing arts, and other activities. We are thrilled to welcome Dewayne along with Iowa Media Network and co-owners Russ Ocker and AJ Anderson and Executive Producer Jimmy Ott II to the Knoxville Family. The Iowa Media Network has launched several successful livestream platforms over the years including GoHillsTV, GoPitchTV, GoSCCTV, and GoClarkeTV - all of which provide a professional level broadcast and viewing experience for the consumer.
Knoxville students have been part of GoSCCTV serving as color analysts, sideline reporters and camera technicians which have given them great authentic learning experiences. We look forward to offering these opportunities and more in the future.
We are excited to showcase our students and activity programs on a professional level platform to a worldwide audience.
Please go like and follow this network on Facebook @GoKnoxvilleTV. You can also download the Iowa Media Network app.
Go Panthers!
Cassi Pearson, Superintendent
Ryan Paulsen, Activities Director
KCSD Preschool teachers (Erin Clarke, Brooke Chrisman, Patrick Murphy and Stacey Trevillyan), AEA consultant (Barb Puffinbarger) and Special Education Director (Lindsay Rains) engaged in professional learning around Specially Designed Instruction for PreSchool with the Department of Education for the past three years. Today marked the completion as they shared about how this learning has impacted changes in their instruction to impact successful inclusion for all students.
Important Weather Alert Information:
The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for Marion County until 6:00 PM tonight. We will diligently keep watch over the weather situation. In the event of a need to seek shelter at dismissal, please note that all students and transportation services will remain in place until the threat subsides. Our school office staff will also take shelter and will be unable to attend to phone calls or grant access to school premises. Students will only be released once it's safe to do so. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding in this matter.
Sincerely,
Cassi Pearson, Superintendent
Nominations are open for the annual Teacher of the Year award presented by Leighton State Bank.
Nominations are open through Wednesday April 24!
Submit your nominations at leightonbank.com/TOTY
Register today for the 2024-2025 School Year! Registration can be completed through the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. If you are having trouble registering or need to set up your Parent Portal, email ICHelp@kcsd.k12.ia.us .
Download the App Here:
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/campus-parent/id1384542785
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infinitecampus.parent.campusportalhybrid&pcampaignid=web_share
**Please note, Student Fees cannot be paid until July 1st**
Congratulations, Kaylynne Anderson!!
Kaylynne competed and won our local Tom Narak Memorial Rotary District 6000 Four Way Speech Contest! She will move on to present her speech on Thursday April 4, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. in the West Des Moines CSD Learning Resource Center. Best of luck Kaylynne!
During National Nutrition Month, Miss Mary Strawberry made stops at both Northstar and West Elementary! She comes to each classroom and talks about different food groups and how they all play an essential role in our diet every day as our students grow up to be strong individuals! After her lesson, students have the opportunity to try some different foods from the food group she taught on.
Due to legislative changes with our certified budget process. We are required to share a document about our first public hearing for the 2024-2025 certified budget. If you wish to share comments please attend the Public Hearing on April 8th, 2024 at 5:30pm in the Board Room in the District Office (418 S Park Lane Drive).
Document: https://5il.co/2gsiq
KACT has worked with a group of our middle school students again this year and they had their presentation last night. We had a great turnout and students had a lot of fun.
