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Another St. Cloud elementary school is transitioning to distance learning.

The St. Cloud Area School District has chosen a few new leaders at two different schools with needs.

The W.K Kellogg Foundation has given the St. Cloud Area School District almost $1-million to fund a project at Discovery and Talahi Schools.

Talahi has their interim Principal, Nikki Hansen was appointed to the role by Superintendent Willie Jett Thursday.

Fifth grade students at Talahi Community School took part in a kindness and leadership retreat on Friday. Youth Frontiers is a nonprofit organization that led the retreat. Jean Culp is a retreat staff member and says the goal was to create a more positive school community.

Over the past two weeks, elementary students have been learning how to create their own inventions at Talahi Community School. The students have been taking part in a program called Camp Invention. The program focuses on STEM (Science, technology, engineering and math) and encourages kids to imagine and create their own inventions.

Elementary students at Talahi Community School are participating in the Hour of Code this week.

District 742 superintendent Willie Jett is pledging improvements at Talahi, Discovery and Madison schools.

Minnesota House Speaker Paul Thissen and Representative Zach Dorholt visited Talahi Community School on Wednesday to highlight all-day kindergarten starting this year.

Hundreds of Talahi Community School students and their families got hands-on engineering experience during Family Engineering Night on Thursday.