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STAFF BLOG REPUBLIC INSIDER Who looks worse today: Munsen or administrators?
My Monday morning got off to a fast start when we received an anonymous tip about the Mitchell boys' basketball program being put on probation for a year by the South Dakota High School Activities Ass...
Posted on 5/24/11 at 7:47 AM
GRAVES: Gov's education plan worth supporting 
Tenure is and always has been a bad idea simply because for many people it is more difficult to stay motivated once you’ve been given a strong measure of job security.
By Joe Graves , January 24, 2012
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GRAVES: Decisions ahead after second leg of laptop project
The other day while attempting to find some long-lost document in a file cabinet in my basement, I happened upon a paper I had written in the 1980s for my master’s degree. (This occurred because the cabinet’s filing system is entropy-based.)
By Joe Graves , January 10, 2012
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Board extends superintendent Graves’ contract; pay to be set later
Acting unanimously, the Mitchell Board of Education voted Monday to extend the contract of Superintendent Joe Graves for another three years. Graves' salary ranks 11th among SD superintendents
By Ross Dolan , January 10, 2012
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School board to evaluate Superintendent Graves
The job performance of Mitchell Superintendent Joe Graves will be discussed today by the school board.
By Staff reports , January 09, 2012
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GRAVES: School budgets best viewed with low expectations
Mitchell is in relatively good shape for South Dakota schools. We have decent reserves and an opt-out that sits at half of its maximum level. And we kicked no deficit cans down the road. Other schools aren’t so lucky.
By Joe Graves , December 27, 2011
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GRAVES: eBooks may bring big changes to beloved libraries
Some years ago, while a superintendent in school district in Iowa, I was greeted with a resignation letter from a long-serving, much-beloved elementary principal. He still loved his job but felt it was time to retire and pursue other interests.
By Joe Graves , December 13, 2011
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GRAVES: Reading to kids matters, even if world really is flat
Recently, I was reading a short biography of the famed U.S. senator Daniel Webster. In it, the author described Webster’s childhood in a 19th Century New England village, a place in which books were so scarce that the future great man took to not just reading those that were available but memorizing them as well.
By Joe Graves , November 29, 2011
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Hopefully, pendulum stops swinging for this new idea
Once you enter the field of education and hear of a new idea for teaching or student behavior or any area of reform, you will also immediately hear an older colleague make one of the following comments:
“We tried that back in aught-four and it didn’t work.”
“Oh, not this again.”
“Don’t let the pendulum hit you as it swings by!”
By Joe Graves, Mitchell superintendent , November 15, 2011
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GRAVES: Rarity of ESD success proves new playoff system needed
One of the pitfalls of writing a timely piece for a daily newspaper is that on occasion, you must write about an event that will be over by the time the article is published but remains in the future as you write. Thus, as I write this, I am unaware of the outcome in the football playoff game between the Mitchell Kernels and Sioux Falls Washington.
By Joe Graves , November 01, 2011
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Educationally Speaking: Difficult, gloomy work, but it comes with silver lining
On occasion in my career, I have been fortunate to teach a course in educational leadership. They say that you never learn anything quite so well as when you teach it, and the saying generally proved true for me as I prepared for and taught the course.
By Joe Graves , October 18, 2011
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GRAVES: Anti-bullying police are latest education fad
Bullying is a serious problem in America’s schools, as well as in its parks, friendships, families and everyplace else human beings come into contact. Unfortunately, as some have tried to help schools deal with this issue, they have also represented the problem in a very superficial, one-dimensional, way.
By Joe Graves , October 04, 2011
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GRAVES: Superintendent Seuss: Only in kindergarten
When Daily Republic reporter Ross Dolan told me last spring that the next Progress edition for the paper would be on kindergarten, I wanted to ask him just how they thought they could possibly find enough to write on about one grade level in school. Having seen the finished product come out over four days last week, however, I have to admit that, indeed, their coverage was both interesting and comprehensive.
By Joe Graves , September 07, 2011
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GRAVES: D.C. superintendent fired for truly serving students
With summer vacation’s conclusion (finally!), I have been trying to spend at least a brief time considering to just what advantage I have put the recent 13-week hiatus from classes.
By Joe Graves , August 23, 2011
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Opinion: E-readers not welcome here
eSchoolNews, which bills itself as providing “Technology News for Today’s K-20 Educator” recently published, digitally of course, an article titled “What schools should consider when buying e-readers.” And before I even made it past the first paragraph of the article, I had answered the author’s question with a much simpler response than his own: Schools should consider not purchasing them in the first place and whipping any they currently have in Lake Mitchell or whatever their corresponding body of water happens to be.
By Joe Graves , April 19, 2011
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Opinion: Budget cuts back for another visit
When Simon and Garfunkel sang the beginning words to “The Sounds of Silence,” “Hello darkness my old friend,” they tapped into something quite deep in the human psyche. Though I’m typically not a fan of any music written since the 1940s, I have to admit that song always gives me pause. In fact, when the final school budget cut numbers came down recently from the state, those same words occurred to me. Then, in a mental spoof, they ran back through my head as “Hello budget cuts my old friend.”
By Joe Graves , April 05, 2011
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