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Members of the Hope Squad at Glenwood Community High School pose for a photo in the hallway at GCHS. Front row (left left): Sophia Stroud, Brooklyn Oetter, Payton Stewart, Abby Chase, Charli Sorenson. Middle row: Kaylee Wray, Maddie Severn, Maya Schau and Abigail Lincoln. Back row: Sponsors Hannah Doorenbos and Heather Roberson. Not pictured: Zoey Brown, Ahna Grassau, Lynnea Longchaya and Faulyn Struble.

Hope Squad - New GCHS Program Fosters A Culture Of Care Through Peer-to-Peer Interaction

Good deeds, acts of kindness and positive messages. For the Hope Squad, these are just a few of the ways the peer-to-peer counseling program is fostering a culture of care at Glenwood Community High School. Beginning last Fall, GCHS partnered with the Utah-based Hope Squad, a nationally recognized...

Pat Staebell retired as the school counselor at Northeast Elementary at the end of the school year. He was a counselor at the school for 32 years.

Retiring School Counselor Pat Staebell Has Impacted The Lives Of Thousands Of Children

Pat Staebell, the only school counselor Northeast Elementary has ever known, retired at the end of the 2022-23 school year. The LeMars native has been a fixture at the school since 1991. “I still get up every day with the same excitement and vigor about wanting to be here but it just comes to the...

GCHS Interim Principal Lorraine Duitsman

GCSD Addressing Findings On High School ‘Leadership, Culture’

A new principal isn’t the only change coming to Glenwood Community High School. Following Principal Cole Albright’s sudden resignation earlier this month, the Glenwood Board of Education met with its outside consulting group to publicly unveil the results of a comprehensive study of the high...

The Rhapsody In Gold vocal jazz choir from Glenwood Community High School earned a sixth-place trophy at last week’s Iowa Vocal Jazz Championships in Spirit Lake. From left: baritone Connor Edick, alto Evan Belt, tenor Dallis Taylor, soprano Aubrey Mullanix and bass Aaron McQueen.

Glenwood Jazz Choir Makes It Voices Heard At State Championships

The group may be small in numbers, but the Glenwood Jazz Choir made a loud statement at last week’s Iowa Vocal Jazz Championships. The five-member ensemble brought home a sixth-place trophy from the state competition in Spirit Lake. Competing in Class 3A, Rhapsody In Gold, directed by Glenwood...

An overflow crowd packed the Glenwood Community School District board room last Monday evening. The parents, students and community members were there to show their appreciation for Glenwood Community High School Activities Director Jeff Bissen.

School Board Hears From Parents Who Don't Want Activities Director To Leave Glenwood

An overflow crowd of parents, students and community members were on hand at last week’s meeting of the Glenwood Board of Education to show their appreciation for Glenwood Community High School Activities Director Jeff Bissen and to encourage the board to “do whatever it can” to keep Bissen from...

Kara Huisman

West Principal Job Will Be A Homecoming For Kara Huisman

Kara Huisman is returning to Glenwood as the new principal at West Elementary. Huisman was formally hired last Monday as the new principal at West Elementary School in Glenwood. The current K-12 curriculum professional development lead at the Treynor Community School District returns to the school...

West Elementary School Principal Genie O'Grady

Genie O'Grady Stepping Down As West Elementary Principal

West Elementary Principal Genie O’Grady has announced she will step down from her position at the end of the school year. O’Grady, 56, announced her retirement in December. She has served as an educator in Iowa for 32 years, the last 10 as principal at West. She is eligible for the Iowa Public...

The Kindness chains from Northeast Elementary School classrooms were linked together for the school assembly.

Acts, Words Of Kindness Celebrated At Northeast Elementary School

Simple acts and words of kindness were celebrated during an all-school assembly last week at Northeast Elementary School. Earlier this year, students at Northeast were challenged to do kind things and say kind words to others in their classrooms. Northeast faculty member Elizabeth Jensen said the...

Glenwood had two high school jazz bands and one middle school jazz band perform at the Dick Bauman Jazz Festival.

Glenwood Hosts Dick Bauman Jazz Festival

Glenwood hosted the 23rd annual Dick Bauman Jazz Festival on President’s Day. High school and middle school bands from throughout southwest Iowa performed at Glenwood Community High School - in the auditorium and auxiliary gymnasium. Bauman was a music educator and a member of the Iowa Jazz...

Ashlie Salazar

New Northeast Principal Is Glenwood Resident, Lewis Central Elemetary Teacher

Ashlie Salazar may be Northeast Elementary School’s new principal but she’s not new to Glenwood. The Muscatine-native and current second grade teacher at Titan Hill Elementary in the Council Bluffs Lewis Central School District has called Glenwood home since 2014, when she and her husband relocated...