Category: Education
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Southern Door School District Floating Idea of Giving 17 Fridays Off
New calendar being designed for savings, teacher-attraction A creatively crafted school calendar could broaden opportunities for some students and help the Southern Door School District attract and retain teachers, board members were told this month. After weeks of discussion by teachers and staff and a preliminary survey of high school students, staff and additional stakeholders, […]
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Governor Cuts Ribbon on New Childcare Center
Child care in Door County got a huge boost earlier this month with the opening of the DOCO Child Development Center just north of Sturgeon Bay on Gordon Road. On Monday, Gov. Tony Evers visited to cut the ribbon on the new center with the school’s 3-year-old students and its founders, sisters Alexis Fuller and […]
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Sturgeon Bay Pushes for Student Progress
Sturgeon Bay principals continue mining for ways to help individual students improve in different learning disciplines and on tests. This month, parents of high school students will receive detailed performance results from fall Pre-ACT tests so they understand focus areas, said high school principal Keith Nerby. Nerby told the school board on Jan. 10 that […]
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Sturgeon Bay students won the first Packerland Conference Math Meet of the season, paced by Ben Stephens’ score of 37 out of a possible 40 to lead the way. Teammates Luke Selle, Julia Michalski, Jack Konop and Trey Wienke recorded the four top scores among the juniors. Southern Door’s James Zittlow finished two points behind […]
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Washington Island’s school board has prioritized improved efficiency in lighting this year. The board plans to complete the installation of only LED lighting throughout the school. The district received one bid as of Jan. 5 for the LED project and was seeking at least one more bid, said district Business Administrator Sue Cornell. Earlier in […]
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Grant Would Make Island’s Lab Even More Fab
Washington Island School continues to increase its high-tech equipment to add to students’ capabilities and to provide new opportunities for island residents. Local donors and school supporters have surpassed $18,000 in contributions the district needs as a match if Washington School is selected for an $18,000 grant from Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to improve the […]
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Sturgeon Bay High School Hosts Inaugural Jazz Festival
The Sturgeon Bay High School instrumental music department will host its inaugural Jazz Festival on Jan. 20. Students from Sturgeon Bay High School and TJ Walker Middle School will be joined by Southern Door high-schoolers during a day-long clinic led by nationally-known jazz musicians. Participating musicians include Mathew Buchman, Director of Jazz Studies at the […]
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Bus Driver Safety Effort Pays Off at Gibraltar
A Door County school official and a parent in December recognized a bus driver for actions and routines that kept students from getting injured when a car slammed into a bus. Angela Sherman in late December urged the Gibraltar Area School Board to recognize or present an award to Dale Krolick due to the Department […]
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Gibraltar Psychologist Earns UW-Whitewater Award
Colleen Tillis, Gibraltar Area Schools’ psychologist, received the 2023 Outstanding Capstone Award from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater School of Graduate Studies. While helping at Milton schools and working on her college project in 2022 – “Improving Students’ Visual Spatial and Math Reasoning Skills in the Early Childhood Classroom with Weekly Teacher Video Training” – she […]
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Gibraltar Seeks Pupil Services Director
The Gibraltar Area School board on Monday accepted the resignation, effective Jan. 5, of Lisa Wing, Pupil Services Director, and approved the advertising of the job opening. Wing was promoted from within the teaching staff to a combined elementary principal and Director of Learning position during the 2021-22 school year and then to District Pupil […]
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Gibraltar Makes Room for Extra 4K Students
Gibraltar’s school board on Jan. 8 approved 15 extra open-enrollment spaces – partially to make room for families from outside of the district who are interested in the district’s 4-year-old kindergarten programming. Superintendent Brett Stousland said he has heard of families from neighboring districts interested in enrolling students for next fall when Gibraltar adds its […]
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Nature-Based Public 4K at The Ridges Sanctuary
Learn more about Gibraltar School District’s three 4K programs Jan. 25 The Gibraltar Area School Board unanimously approved the addition of a public 4K classroom at The Ridges Sanctuary for the 2024-2025 school year on Dec. 11, expanding Gibraltar’s offerings for free, public 4K and presenting an opportunity for the community to participate in a […]
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Educator Settling Into New Role
Heather Mleziva began her position as Luxemburg-Casco Intermediate School Principal in July of 2023, after six years as an eighth-grade special education teacher at Denmark Middle School. In the months since Mleziva started, she has introduced several initiatives influenced by her educational approach. That approach is based on four fundamentals: relationships, sense of belonging, knowledge […]
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Districts Support Hiring Retirees When Needed
School districts collaborating on teacher recruitment and retention Door County school officials are looking at multiple ways to deal with teacher shortages. One of those is a bill to allow schools and governments to hire back retirees and to allow those retirees to continue receiving retirement and pension payments. The bill has the backing of […]
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Big Scholarships For Two Sturgeon Bay High School Artists
Sturgeon Bay High School seniors and AP artists Mercedes Hanley and Ethan Evensen were both offered major college scholarships. Hanley was offered the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design’s $96,000 Board of Trustees art merit scholarship. Evensen was offered the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s $88,000 presidential art merit scholarship, and is also a […]
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DECA Awards For Gibraltar Students
Two Gibraltar High School students earned honors at the DECA Northeast Wisconsin District Career Development Conference on Dec. 16. DECA is a national association that prepares students for careers in marketing, management and entrepreneurship. Gibraltar Senior Vanessa Demarinis placed third overall in the Apparel and Accessories Marketing Series, taking top honors in the exam and […]
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Klaubauf: Southern Door Addition is for the Public
A new fitness center and practice facility going up behind Southern Door High will be for public use and activities – not just for practices and weightlifting and workouts for the students, interim superintendent Tony Klaubauf emphasized in December. Klaubauf is asking district residents to suggest names to brand the new building as a space […]
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The education stories that kept us busy this year included the mysterious resignation of the Southern Door School District’s former superintendent, Chris Peterson. School board members spent hours in closed session from March through June, even while the district’s $14.9 million, voter-approved capital-improvement project moved forward, with some large changes. In the northern half of […]
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Farm To School Funding Available
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting applications for the Wisconsin Farm to School Grant Program through 5 pm on Feb. 2. DATCP will award a total of up to $250,000 in Farm to School grants. Farm to School programs facilitate locally produced, healthy food purchasing and education practices at […]
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Southern Door Seeks Community Input On Superintendent Hiring
The Southern Door County School District Board of Education has created an online survey as part of its district superintendent hiring process. The survey is designed to gather insights from the Southern Door community on the qualities and characteristics considered essential in a new school district superintendent. Email [email protected] for a link to the survey.