Angela Wittmer, School Counselor at Holmes Junior High School, has been named the 2020 Iowa Middle School Counselor of the Year. She was nominated by Rebecca Lins and was selected by the Iowa School Counselor Association (ISCA) for this honor.

"Ms. Wittmer is being recognized for the outstanding counseling program she has developed as well as for her leadership and advocacy in the field of school counseling. Her application reflected her excellent program and commitment to the profession. She is a model school counselor who will do an outstanding job of representing counselors across the state in her role as Iowa Middle School Counselor of the Year!"
Watch the send-off Cedar Heights Elementary
gave to Gene Haller, their Crossing Guard for the past 22 years!
A joint art project by students at the University of Northern Iowa and Holmes Junior High persevered through a global pandemic to convey a message of inclusivity and creativity. The artwork, which features colorful representations of beloved elements of Holmes Junior High fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, was hung in the school’s cafeteria. The 8-foot by 4-foot plywood relief sculpture “Holmes Pride” was created through a partnership with seventh and eighth graders in Holmes’ Expanded Learning Program and UNI art education majors in Associate Professor Wendy Miller’s Issues and Theories class, with assistance from UNI’s Public Arts Incubator.
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Watch the board presentation and update on the Virtual Campus.
"Life Painting" by Aaron Perrine. Performed by the Cedar Falls High School Wind Symphony on the Fall 2020 Virtual Concert. Recorded live, 10/1/2020, in Cedar Falls HS Auditorium. Kyle Engelhardt, conductor. Social distancing of 6', musician's masks, and bell covers were used for student safety.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Make a donation to the connect>CF Fund. connect>CF is a collaboration between CFU and the district to offer more affordable home internet to students in lower-income households. With many students learning remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the need for home internet is even more important than ever. Click here to donate online. More information about this program may be found here.
The Governor announced a change to the quarantine recommendations for people that have been exposed to a positive case of COVID-19.

  • Close contacts of COVID-positive cases will no longer need to quarantine for 14 days if a face covering was consistently worn by both people during the exposure.
  • Household/residential contacts will still have the 14-day quarantine recommendation.
  • This does NOT change the isolation requirements for people that are actually sick or COVID-positive to isolate from others until: They have had no fever for at least 24 hours (that is one full day of no fever without the use of medicine that reduces fevers) and their other symptoms have improved, AND At least 10 days have passed since their symptoms first appeared OR since they had a positive COVID test if they are asymptomatic.

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