Lora Nordquist

Moving fifth-graders will require adding a staff member to coordinate the different middle school and elementary school schedules, without lowering the size of classes at the school, said Sisters Middle School Principal Lora Nordquist.Waiting one year would give the school more time to formulate curriculum and would also free up additional money for teacher salaries, she said.

Sisters Middle School Principal Lora Nordquist, who approved the Sonrise curriculum in 2004, declined to comment on her findings.

Lora Nordquist, principal at Sisters Middle School, cited studies that report the hours between 3 and 7 p.m. are when children are most at risk for getting into trouble.By offering supervised and structured after-school activities administrators and parents hope to help avoid problems.

it be really important to have lots of after-school activities, she said.

Some of the most popular of these activities remain the traditional ones - sports.

Most schools at both the middle school and high school levels offer a wide variety of sports for both boys and girls and all ability levels.From football and basketball to track, tennis and soccer, just about every student can find something that suits him or her.

Some competitive sports teams welcome all and have no-cut policies, while others limit numbers.
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Anything we can do to allow a kid to shine, added Nordquist.it be so important for self-esteem.Sometimes the traditional school curriculum do not find that place a kid can shine..

Principal: Lora Nordquist

Lora Nordquist

Principal , Sisters Middle School

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To the Editor :

A sad good-bye to a beautiful horse , a gentle soul , and heartfelt thoughts to the woman who loved him.

Lora Nordquist, principal of Sisters Middle School, said, "We didn't have standards (districtwide) before this."She was referring to a new way to evaluate teacher performance.

Lora Nordquist, principal of Sisters Middle School, said administrators in the district will be pleased to see the money used to make buildings a safe and comfortable place for students to learn and staff to work.

"There's been no controversy from anyone," she said.

Lora Nordquist

Activities Director , Sisters High School

To the Editor :

We would like to thank all those members of the Sisters community who supported the annual Fund-raiser Raffle for Hospice of Redmond and Sisters.

This year our raffle was a trip to Hawaii for four nights and five days.The trip included air fare , hotel and car for two.We could not have put this raffle together without the participation of Desert Wings Travel.They have supported Hospice of Redmond and Sisters the past two years.

As the Sisters community dedicated its new high school last week, seven-tenths of a mile down the Old McKenzie Highway (Highway 242) toward town, Middle School Principal Lora Nordquist was busily preparing for the opening of her own "new" school, the remodeled former high school.

On March 20 the board received a staff report from the school district's co-curricular committee, led by Activities Director Lora Nordquist and Athletics Director Chuck DeKay, that provided a recommendation on what the goals of a co-curricular program should be, as well as some cost figures and proposals for adding or deleting programs.