Attention: The last day of school will now be June 7th and it will be a half day.
Online registration is now open for the Columbia School District Summer Camps! The Spring-Summer publication will be arriving in your mailboxes in the next week or two. Please note that Youth Basketball and Youth Football registration information will be sent home with students at a later date. Online Registration Camp Information
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Columbia! Dr. Campbell's Blog
If you shop Amazon - please consider using smile.amazon.com. This allows you to select COLUMBIA SCHOOL DISTRICT as a non-profit organization and a portion of every purchase will be donated from Amazon to our school district! We appreciate your support to enhance the education of all of our students!https://smile.amazon.com/ch/38-6001837
Recently I was involved in a discussion about how children learn in 2018, versus how they learned twenty years ago. My sons have friends who are parents and several of them have iPads for their children. My younger son, Jon, was using his iPad at one of his friend’s home and their nine-month-old daughter crawled over to see what he was doing and to “help” him. ...
Hanging on to the screen for dear life, the praying mantis slowly made its way up towards the top. Rather than walking through the foliage, this praying mantis was in the sun seemingly asking to come into the house. I wondered what the mantis was thinking, if a mantis indeed thinks about anything, and just then it just hopped away! Thinking about the mantis...
Bullying! At some point most of us have been bullied, or have bullied others. Even when we are grown and in a career, we may be the victim of harassment or bullying. Columbia School District teachers and staff members work diligently to prevent and negate the effects of bullying.
Unfortunately, nationwide we hear more and more about the effects of...
Straight up in the evening sky was a bright shining crescent moon! It was so awe inspiring that as I stood in my back yard looking up, my neighbors stopped to appreciate the beauty of the evening sky. As parents, or grandparents, how can we take an observation of the great outdoors and use it to encourage our children or grandchildren to read?
By using...
Columbia Central High School Seniors, Alissa Fish and Gehrig Elliott along with Dr. Campbell recorded a segment with Bart Hawley on JTV.
https://jtv.tv/columbia-students-advancing-in-early-college
Education at Columbia School District is better than in the Movies! Over the years we have seen television shows or movies that focus on school life. While story lines about schools take risks and exploit academic opportunities, at Columbia Schools the teachers, parents and students have partnered to give students the best opportunity for academic success
When...
During the soggy wet afternoon, the drizzling rain kept coming. My drive around the country side was on a road surrounded by a green lush valley that seemed to stretch upward towards the sky. As the sun began to peak out from between the clouds, there was a small rainbow visible between the trees. The further I drove the more brilliant the rainbow became until...
The Columbia School District is participating in the Jackson County Early College (JCEC) program through a partnership with Jackson College. This new early college program paves the way for Columbia students to move from a traditional k-12 approach to a more vigorous k-14 conduit that will be personalized for our students.
The Jackson County Early College...
Each summer my husband and I take a group of teens to Cedar Point. The experience is enjoyable and educational. One of the things I find fascinating is that depending on your vantage point, you see the park differently. When you are on a fast ride you see the area as a blur, both right-side up and upside down. If you are on the Sky Ride or the giant Ferris...
The Columbia School District is participating in the Jackson County Early College (JCEC) program through a partnership with Jackson College. This new early college program paves the way for Columbia students to move from a traditional k-12 approach to a more vigorous k-14 conduit that will be personalized for our students.
The Jackson County Early College program...
A hero doesn't necessarily have to wear a cape and tights, maybe a hero speaks up for what's right. Maybe that hero could be you. If you see or hear something that doesn't seem right, you can submit a confidential tip to OK2SAY. OK2SAY allows anyone to confidentially report tips on criminal activities or potential harm directed at Michigan students, school...
Zonar Z Pass
Columbia Elementary K-6 students will benefit from a new bus system to track their route during the 2018-19 school year. Each child will wear a swipe card on their backpack, which will register when and where they get on and off the bus.
Parents will receive an email with a link to a website that allows them to access their students account to...
Jackson County Early College is a new option for high school students to build a career pathway and begin their college degree as early as ninth grade. Students, while completing the program, may earn an associate degree (60 credits) by the end of an additional year (year 13). Click here for more information. Apply Online
Our points of pride include strong academics which have produced high test scores, an award winning band program, high school pre-engineering courses which use project based learning to enhance each student’s skills, Advanced Placement courses that challenge our students and provide an opportunity for them to earn college credit, free GSRP preschool for four year...