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Wisconsin Bookworms Planting the Seed of Excitement for Reading at an Early Age We’ve been hearing it for years: parents aren’t reading to their children enough. One 2013 study from the School Library Journal sites that two-thirds of parents don’t read to their children every night. Another 2016 survey from group Read Aloud 15 Minutes […]
Collectively Upgrading, Restoring, and Beautifying our schools. According to Forbes, we only get a seven second window to make a first impression before someone makes a judgement. As humans we instinctively make quick judgements, and then stick with those preconceptions until they are challenged. This hangs over how we perceive and interact with that which we’ve judged for […]
Directly across the street from Webster Stanley Elementary School on Miller’s Bay is one of the best natural ice skating rinks you can find during the winter months. As Steve Eliasen and Dr. Eric Smiltneek were gliding across the glass-like surface a few years ago, they wondered why more people didn’t take advantage of the […]
Nick Mees understands that the key to teaching is making learning fun and come to life. As a Life & Earth science teacher at Merrill middle school, he was awarded a Celebrate Education grant by the Oshkosh Area School District Education Foundation for Bedazzled by Butterflies in the Classroom, a program that used painted lady […]
Celebrate Education, an annual event that honors the educators, administrators and volunteers in our schools, will take place on March 20 at 4:30 p.m. at the Oshkosh Convention Center. One of last year’s grant recipients was Webster elementary school to create a 2nd grade STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) classroom, which was headed by […]
OSHKOSH, WI – Oshkosh4Education invites the community to hear about progress being made in Oshkosh Area School District schools on Tuesday. The public school advocacy and watchdog group will shine the light on how the community’s vision is being carried out through OASD’s strategic plan and other initiatives during its annual report to the community […]
Celebrate Education doled out more than $49,000 in grants to our communities’ excellent educators and schools on Monday (3/12/16) during an event attended by nearly 200 people at the Oshkosh Convention Center. A good portion of these dollars are thanks to the Rudoy family — four generations of which have supported education in Oshkosh for 20-plus […]
“The students in our program were so excited to have the opportunity to lead their own project. They worked together in core classes to research, plan, design and budget for the school garden.” Second Chance students get experience using power tools, under supervision, while building raised garden beds for the school garden. OASD photo Teacher Ivy […]
“Riverside saved my life,” says Nick Panke Fenrich, who was 17 when he was arrested for burglary. He and a few younger friends decided to take items from the garage of someone they knew. “Everything about it was stupid,” he says with regret. One of the calls he made from jail was to Lisa Lieder, […]
OSHKOSH, WI — As a young girl, Amanda Schulz understood this about money: Her family didn’t have much of it. She grew up in poverty. She was fortunate to recognize opportunities to move herself onto a better path in life – a statistically unusual thing for a poor child to do. A former member of […]