Moorhead Community Education

This Back to Basics Illustration class is the perfect opportunity to delve into the creative process like never before. You will be guided through the basics of sketching and color, texture and lighting effects. You'll learn how to brainstorm original concepts, quickly sketch out your ideas, and use inking and color to add depth and intensity to your illustrations. Materials Needed: graphite drawing pencil set, a stick of charcoal, a set of colored pencils and chalk pastels, a sketch-book or sketch pad and kneaded eraser.

In this Back to Basics class, you will learn the basics of color mixing, discover the different effects that can be achieved with various brushes & palette/painting knives and techniques to bring your subjects to life by incorporating dimension, ensuring that they appear realistic and three-dimensional on the canvas. Materials Needed: set of acrylic paints, two to three acrylic paint brushes, a canvas pad or a few stretched canvases of any size and a container to hold tap water.

Throughout the course, you'll be guided through a series of exercises and prompts that are specifically designed to ignite your creativity. From setting yourself up for success with a daily drawing habit to exploring different materials and sketchbook recommendations, we cover all the essentials to ensure you have a fulfilling artistic journey. Materials Needed: graphite drawing pencil set, a stick of charcoal, a set of colored pencils and chalk pastels, a sketch-book or sketch pad and kneaded eraser.

Join us for a weekly practice and 11v11 games for grades 6-12 male soccer players looking to sharpen up for the fall soccer season. The summer league will be run by MHS boys' soccer coaching staff.

Join Bev Grimm, Home Economist, to prepare popular Picnic foods and take home recipes to be included at summer get togethers. Impress your friends with picnicking skills and a colorful menu.

Join Tess as she walks you through how to make a variety of the most marvelous California rolls that will make you wonder why you haven't tried to make your own before. California sushi roll combinations are only limited by your imagination! Learn the skill of creating delicious seasoned sushi rice, spicy mayo and how to stuff , wrap and shape the rolls with wonderful filling ingredients.

Especially geared for future leaders in the Gen Y generation (born 1980-1999), the certificate provides how-to practical information on advancing your leadership potential and making a difference in both the workplace and in society. Find out what it takes to become an effective leader. Discover your style of leadership. Discuss task completion, building relationships with your subordinates, becoming socially perceptive to changes in the workplace, utilizing your emotions in a positive and effective manner, and addressing challenging goals. Then learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit in for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned. You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do. At the end of completing the three course certificate, you will come away with a new understanding, new toolbox of leadership skills, and the information to move your leadership development into high gear.

New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same. But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently. In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum. Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write, and speak around North America, on learning styles.

Non-profits today need to be run like a business in many respects. You have competition, a need to generate income and a surplus, and staff need to be even more productive. Get the best training on revenue generation for nonprofits, and program evaluation for nonprofits, with our Certificate in Non Profit Administration. You will come away with the latest best information from instructors who train people in nonprofits.

Good communication in the workplace is more important than ever. And critical to your career advancement and success. Come get a comprehensive and intensive preparation with skills and techniques you can put to use on Monday morning. Take back a workable conflict management model, along with successful and practical conflict management strategies. Then work with a pro to learn how to improve your negotiation skills for a win-win outcome, including helping others to get what they want, so you get what you want. Finally, find out more about yourself and others using personality profiles for better work performance. You will be learning from some of our more popular instructors, and taking away new how-to skills that work.

Moorhead Area Public Schools’ Driver Education classroom program is open to high school students age 15 or older living in the Moorhead School District. Register through the Community Education office, 2777 34th St. S., 218-284-3400. Information sheets and registration forms also can be picked up at the Moorhead High activities office. Financial aid is not available through the district. This 30-hour class prepares students for their instructional permit. Steps for people under 18 years of age to get a Minnesota driver's license: 1. Complete mandatory 30 hours of scheduled classroom instruction. Students cannot be absent or tardy when attending this course. A 90-minute parent component will be scheduled for this class in compliance with Minnesota law. If the parent class is taken then the practice driving hours are reduced from 50 hours to 40. 2. Register for behind-the-wheel training, with a private vendor and receive the blue card. The blue card is issued by the vendor providing the behind-the-wheel instruction and is required to take the state permit test. 3. Take and pass the state permit test. Students registering for the permit test must provide: one primary ID, one secondary ID and the blue card. Primary ID options: state issued ID, current passport or state certified birth certificate. Secondary ID options: Social Security card, student ID with picture and ID number, or certified school transcript. Upon passing the permit test, making payment, and parent/guardian signature, students receive their permit. 4. Complete behind-the-wheel training. Students must have a permit before they can start behind-the-wheel instruction. 5. Complete the six-month practice period. Minnesota law now requires drivers to have a permit for six months before taking the road test. Every driver under the age of 18 who completes behind-the-wheel instruction and is testing for a provisional driver’s license must submit a driving log. 6. Pass road test. To take the road test, students must be 16 years old and have had their permit for six months. Drive on provisional license until qualifications for full license are met. You must complete all 30 hours of scheduled class to be able to get your permit. If the 30 hours are not completed you will have to register and pay full price for the class again. No absences or tardies allowed. Please note location at registration. Students must attend all 30 hours in person.

Get ready for a sweet adventure in the great outdoors with our camping-themed cookie decorating class! Join us as our experienced instructor guides you through step-by-step directions to create five delightful cookies inspired by the wonders of camping.