For Iowa City High’s head football coach Dan Sabers, it was never about the wins. Whether it was on the field or in the classroom, it was all about hard work.
Sabers said he has held on to his...
Dasia Taylor has always been an involved student at West High school and her school spirit hasn’t been hampered by classes taking place in online or hybrid formats. The senior recently launched a...
When the Iowa City Community School board met to discuss moving classes 100 percent online for two weeks in response to rising COVID-19 infection rates, protecting the physical health of students and...
When Iowa City students began spring break back in March, few of them expected to be out of their school’s building for the rest of the year. Nine months later, the Iowa City Community School District...
Standard enrollment students in the Iowa City community schools have been back in physical classrooms for six weeks. With COVID-19 positivity rates on the rise, they might be temporarily returning...
The Iowa City Community School District had plenty of work to do when preparing to move classes to online and hybrid formats. When courses require physical materials to complete the work, that can...
What is appropriate classroom conduct when teaching slavery? Under what circumstance is it appropriate to show content that uses the racial slurs? What if a lesson causes harm?
Laura Gray, the director...
Timberline Billing Service, LLC, a company that provides Medicaid billing and reimbursement services to school districts in Iowa, is sending letters to students from several districts to notify them...
Online classes have not only exposed Iowa City Community School District students to a new learning format, but have also introduced students to new teachers and peers from across the district.
As...
Ordinarily, libraries are a common space for anyone to wander through and browse their collection of books. When schools initially created COVID-19 guidelines, however, the elements that made libraries...
When kids returned to physical classrooms this fall, the materials that students and schools needed to be prepared for class looked different than the traditional supply list of notebooks, pencils...
Nancy Cuellar Amezquita graduated with a teaching degree from the University of Northern Iowa in December 2019, before there were any cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. Nine months later, Cuellar began...
