LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC EDUCATION
Coon Rapids High School Biomedical
Sciences Program joins NWSISD
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Superintendent’s
Column
cont. from page 1
Nov. 24 School Board meeting, Dr.
William Morris, one of the foremost
experts in public opinion polling in
Minnesota, provided some answers
to that question very well when he
presented the results of our annual
community survey. While I can brag
about our great schools forever, I
lose the audience within minutes.
When our own community members
brag about our schools, people
listen.
Dr. Morris and his firm surveyed
500 randomly selected adults of all
ages. About a third were parents or
guardians of current students. The
survey asked about 75 questions,
but I want to highlight just a few.
(The full survey is on the website at
http://bit.ly/2014AHsurvey.)
As part of Coon Rapids High School’s Biomedical Sciences Program, students often take field trips, like one students took last year to Gillette
Children’s Hospital in Saint Paul. While there, students took x-rays, performed simulations of laparoscopic surgeries, and participated in a slew of
other hands-on learning opportunities.
Coon Rapids High School’s (CRHS) Biomedical Sciences
Program has become the 5th Anoka-Hennepin specialty
school to join the Northwest Suburban Integration School
District (NWSISD).
It also means the program will be growing. “We can
grow the program faster and more effectively by being a
member,” Sams said.
Right now, the Biomedical Sciences Program at
CRHS has about 200 students participating in two
different classes: Principles of Biomedical Sciences and
Human Body Systems.
Next year, two core classes
“It means a lot to join
will be added: Medical
the (NWSISD),” said Leah
Interventions, and a capSams, the school’s biomedstone called Biomedical
ical program coordinator.
Innovations. In addition,
“We’re only two years old,
three elective courses will
but it feels good people
be added next year:
are noticing the hard work.
Introduction to Holistic
We’ve been trying to prove
Healing, which offers conourselves, and I think they
- Leah Sams, Coon Rapids High School’s biomedcurrent enrollment with
realized we’re walking the
ical program coordinator
Anoka Ramsey Community
walk.”
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By joining the NWSISD, students from [