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Get district news your way
Communication builds trust with our Anoka-Hennepin communities, confidence in our district and schools, and support for providing a high quality education for all students.
As a public institution, Anoka-Hennepin is accountable to its parents/guardians and other citizens, informing them about their investment in public education and seeking their insight on helping the school district deliver high quality educational programs that meet the needs of its students and communities.
Stay tuned to the following outlets for news and information:
- Backpack Online e-newsletter
- Focus newsletter, which includes a Grad Spotlight feature
- Action of the School Board
- Parent Engage 360 podcast
- Links to school communications (e-newsletters, social media pages)
Do you have a news tip to share? Contact the communication and public relations department.
District news
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Anoka High School and community partners offer networking, hands-on opportunities for students to explore trades career pathways
(02/03/2023) Students at Anoka High School (AHS) made connections with local technical colleges, labor unions and employers, and experienced hands-on job skills in virtual reality scenarios in a mobile learning lab on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
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Champlin Park High School student talent show kicks-off Black History Month activities
(02/03/2023) Passion and talent were displayed during a student talent show at Champlin Park High School (CPHS) on Feb. 1 as students helped kick off Black History Month activities.
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District student-athletes sign letters of intent on national signing day
(02/03/2023) Student-athletes from Anoka-Hennepin’s five high schools (Andover, Anoka, Blaine, Champlin Park and Coon Rapids) participated in events Feb. 1 marking National Signing Day.
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Interactive learning experience enhances digestive system curriculum for Hoover second graders
(02/02/2023) The specialty program at Hoover Elementary School - Biomedical, Health Sciences and Engineering focuses on human body systems and the biomedical and technological systems that keep us healthy.
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Choose your preferred communication methods with AHlert
Anoka-Hennepin families now have the ability to choose their preferred communication method(s) for receiving automated messages. The service is being provided through a program called AHlert and will share items such as principal updates, lunch account balances and winter weather closings.
Families can choose whether they’d like to receive phone calls, text messages, email, or a combination of the three. Follow these step-by-step directions in the AHlert program to get started:
- Login to A-HConnect and select the AHlert icon.
- Once you’ve reached the AHlert screen, select the “calling preferences” link on the right-hand side.
- Check or un-check the “active” box to enable or disable delivery devices.
- Click the “save changes” button on the bottom left.
Note: If there is not a cell phone number listed in the system for you or the phone number or email shown is incorrect, please contact your child/children’s school(s).
Families will still be able to receive winter weather-related school closing and other emergency information through the venues they’re familiar with (website, e-news, social media); this service is simply an addition to these regular communications.
If you signed up to receive text notifications sometime in the last two years (called Weather Alert in 2013-14, AHlert in 2014-15), you’ll need to re-subscribe using the directions above.As always, call 763-506-HELP (4357) with questions.
Photo and content guidelines
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Photo guidelines
Anoka-Hennepin staff, volunteers, representatives of the news media and others occasionally photograph, audiotape or videotape students in the schools. The photos, audiotape and videotape may be used in newsletters, newspapers, activity programs, yearbooks, brochures, on television, in educational videotapes, on webpages, in podcast episodes, and other appropriate uses.Parents/guardians may choose to limit the use of their child's photo. When a child enrolls in an Anoka-Hennepin School, parent/guardian(s) will be asked to select one of the following options:- No restriction: A child's photo will be taken and/or a child may be videotaped or audiotaped for all purposes as described in paragraph one above.
- Partial restriction: A child’s portrait/photo will be taken by the contracted school portrait photographer but used only for internal school identification records and in the school yearbook (as an individual portrait or as part of a traditional class photo/group photo taken by our school photo vendor).
- Full restriction: A child’s portrait/photo will be taken by the contracted school portrait photographer but used only for internal school identification records; it will not be used in the school yearbook or as part of a traditional class photo/group photo.
The parents’/guardians’ choices will be recorded in the child’s records. If parents wish to restrict their child's name, they must make a request in writing as described in the student records policy. Parents/guardians may change their photo option choice at any time by completing a new photo option form, which is available from their school.
Please note: Although the school will take reasonable steps to prevent students with full or partial restrictions from being photographed, except for portrait photos taken by the contracted school portrait photographer, the school cannot guarantee that a student will not be photographed/videotaped as part of a large group, such as participating in a school assembly, walking through a school hallway, and other situations where there are large numbers of students.
Parents taking photos: We do not restrict parents from taking photos during events such as track and field, class plays, etc. We do not attempt to ensure they aren’t taking photos of students who don’t have photo releases.
Updated Aug. 4, 2015
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Guidelines for e-news, web and social media
The Anoka-Hennepin School District disseminates information to staff and community electronically via the:- In the Know e-newsletter (ITK).
- Backpack Online e-newsletter (BPO).
- School and Program Events Calendar (which is repeated/pushed to e-news, social media and web).
- Announcements of workshops, classes, events, etc., will be included in district e-news, social media & web if they are sponsored or co-sponsored by the district or a school within the district, or by a consortium to which the district belongs (TIES and North Suburban Integration School Districts).
- Announcements by non-district or non-school organizations may be included if they have written endorsement by an appropriate district administrator.
- Announcements of fundraisers will be included only if they benefit a school, the school district or the Anoka-Hennepin Educational Foundation, or if they benefit a current staff member or his or her spouse and/or children.
All requests for distribution of materials to staff on school property (i.e., paper copies of a brochure sent to teachers' mail boxes in staff lounges) or students on school property should be sent to Community Education.
Requests to promote potential school-based activities, lyceums, student competitions, etc. should be sent directly to the director of elementary curriculum or director of secondary curriculum to determine if they meet student or staff needs. Requests to promote parent education programs should be sent to the parent involvement coordinator to determine if they meet parent needs. Requests to promote events involving Continuing Education Units (CEUs), should be sent to the Continuing Education Committee to see if they meet district CEU standards.
Requests to promote products or services (graduate classes, staff discounts, etc.) via electronic dissemination or paper distribution of materials on school property will not be permitted as the distribution of materials that promote commercial sales of services or products to staff or students is generally prohibited by the district's advertising policy and guidelines (905.0 and 905.0G).
In accordance with the Distribution of Materials on School Property by Non-School Persons policy, in the event that permission to distribute materials is denied, the individual who made the request may seek reconsideration of the decision by the superintendent. The request for reconsideration must be in writing and explain why distribution is desirable and in the interest of district staff.
All requests for electronic dissemination via ITK, BPO or the School and Program Events Calendar should be sent to the Communication and Public Relations department. The department will review submissions on a case-by-case basis and notify the submitter within 10 business days (usually sooner) of approval or denial.
Updated May 13, 2013
Executive Director of Communication and Public Relations
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Jim Skelly
763-506-1111
Jim Skelly
Executive Director of Communication and Public Relations
763-506-1111
james.skelly@ahschools.us