John Ostrowski
Dover-Eyota Middle School Principal
Let’s Enjoy Our School Year and Make Memories During the 2023-24 School Year at Dover-Eyota!!!!!!!
We are very excited for the changes that are just starting at Dover-Eyota HS/MS! This year our 6th graders will be experiencing a change in their class schedules. They will no longer be in be self-contained in one classroom throughout most of the day, rather they will be changing rooms and classes throughout the day. We will begin the school year in August and be dismissed for the summer in mid may 2024. That is a huge change! I am very excited to get out in May. Construction at the HS/MS will also begin which will result in many changes throughout the year. We will be announcing those changes in advance to keep families aware. We know these changes can create anxiousness, uncertainty and excitement. We will be there for each other through these changes to make it as enjoyable as possible.
This is the start of my 26th year at Dover-Eyota. My career path at Dover-Eyota started in 1998 as the Activities Director and Community Education Coordinator. In 2008 the district chose to move the 6th graders over to the high school building and I was given the opportunity to facilitate that move and add the role of 6th grade principal to my duties. In the 2011-12 school year, my role officially changed to Activities Director and Assistant Principal 6-12. Another change took place in 2021 as my new role was Assistant Principal, which brings us to 2022-23 my first year as Middle School Principal.
I grew up in a small central Wisconsin town of 300 people, thus the affinity for the Green Bay Packers. As a young man I really enjoyed school, admired my teachers and always felt that teaching and coaching was going to be my future career. I have taught physical education, health education, coached varsity girls’ basketball, varsity baseball, 7th, 9th and JV boys’ basketball as well as 7th & 8th grade softball.
I live in rural Dover with my wife Cindy. We have two daughters, Mattie Jo and Megan. Both of the girls are married and living life as adults, homeowners, tax payers and gainfully employed. Whew! They both attended DE, played 3 sports and after graduation used that excellent Dover-Eyota education to graduate from college. Cindy and I also became grandparents for the first time, a baby boy named Grayson. Stop me some time and I will show you pictures.
During my free time I enjoy gardening, deer hunting, ice fishing listening to Twins baseball on the radio (I really love baseball) and spending time at our cabin searching the lakes for crappies, bass and big bluegills.
Each day we have the opportunity to create our own yearbook. Use each day to add some additional pages. You will be surprised how much fun your school experience will be. Once you begin looking back on the year it will surprise you at all the things that happened. Become involved, participate, try new things and expand yourself! Being uncomfortable and stretching yourself is a good thing. Let’s expand our yearbook together and have an AWESOME YEAR!
If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to call or email, we all want you and your child to have a great year.
