Schools

Proposed Madison Charter School Receives Major Grant

Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community Editor

Thursday, August 12th, 2010, 12:21pm

Minutes before the Badger Rock Middle School planning team presented their final proposal to the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education, supporters received news that they had been awarded a planning grant from the Department of Public Instruction in the amount of $200,000.

The proposed Badger Rock Middle School, which would open in the fall of 2011 on Madison's South Side, would be a year-round charter school and be part of a larger Resilience Research Center project spearheaded by the Madison-based Center for Resilient Cities.

The Resilience Research Center project is designed to be a four-acre campus with a working farm, a neighborhood center, café, adjacent city park and the proposed school.

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Franklin Elementary Takes Teaching Outdoors

Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community Editor

Thursday, August 12th, 2010, 12:27am

Students and staff at Franklin Elementary School will be able to experience a new learning environment this fall thanks to the help of the Wisconsin Landscape Contractors Association for the Madison Chapter.

Last weekend, more than 40 members of the landscape association donated their time, talents, soil, mulch, groundcover and plants to Franklin Elementary School for a new outdoor classroom.

The space will be on the underutilized strip of shaded space adjacent to the school building.

Science, math, writing, story telling and more will take on a new purpose and function in the out space.

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Bay Creek Neighborhood Gets Everyone Ready For School

Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community Editor

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010, 9:16pm

Bay Creek Neighborhood kids will host their second annual school supply and food drive on Saturday, August 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Franklin Elementary School on West Lakeside Street on Madison's south side.

Gently used and new school supplies are being collected to provide to families in need that attend Franklin, Randall, Lincoln and Thoreau Schools and who utilize the St. Marks Lutheran Church Food Pantry.

Food donations should be non-perishable and will be given to the St. Mark's Lutheran Church Food Pantry.

Even though located at Franklin School, this is a not a Madison Metropolitan School District sponsored event.

For more info or a complete list of needed items please email wagondrive@charter.net

The rain date will be Sunday, August 15.

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K-Ready Racks Up Record Numbers

Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community Editor

Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 4:54pm

The Madison Metropolitan School District program has grown to a new record high number of participants.

K-Ready is a full day program that provides the opportunity for students to have six weeks of time in schools to help prepare them for kindergarten in the fall.

Students work on academic readiness skills such as letter recognition, name writing and counting.

The program has grown to a new high of 460 students being served this summer -- about 22 percent of projected kindergarteners.

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MMSD Announces Aristos Scholars, Grants Programs

Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community Editor

Saturday, June 19th, 2010, 12:24am

The Madison Metropolitan School District’s Aristos Scholars and Grants Program has announced the grant recipients for the 2010-11 school year.

This program provides funding to support new and creative initiatives that increase student success and create a prestigious Scholars Academy whose members form a think tank of creative educators exploring educational issues.

This year the judges awarded a total of $38,917 to the project leaders of seven grants.

The 2010-11 grantees include:

Interact with Math! - MMSD Teaching and Learning - $1,800
Service Learning - Spring Harbor Middle School -$4,820
Tools for Teamwork - East High School - $3,208
Seed to Table Agriculture: East High Youth Farm -East High School - $9,500
Skyping Our Way to Better Math - Franklin Elementary School - $9,936
Memorial United Student Leadership - Memorial High School - $3,000
Kennedy Elementary Peer Mentoring Program -Kennedy Elementary School - $6,653

In addition to the grants, nine educators have been added to the Aristos Scholars Academy, a group in which members explore educational issues.

Jay Affeldt, Memorial High School
Claudine Clark, East High School
Troy Dassler, Leopold Elementary School
Kitty Erdman, Emerson Elementary School
Josh Forehand, Nuestro Mundo Community School
Susie Hobart, Lake View Elementary School
Mika Oriedo, Sennett Middle School
Greg Rittman, East High School
Beth Steffan, La Follette High School

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No Summer Vacation for Madison College Students

Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community Editor

Thursday, June 17th, 2010, 9:10pm

For the second straight summer, Madison Area Technical College’s enrollment has taken a big jump. In 2009, enrollment increased nearly 22 percent. It has risen an additional 8 percent in 2010.

"We continue to experience historic enrollment growth," said Madison College vice president for Learner Success Terry Webb. "While we welcome all students, there’s no doubt the growth is stressing the college’s resources. We’ve expanded our West and South campuses and we’re using a variety of creative strategies to meet the needs of our community."

Some of the more popular programs include nursing, information technology, accounting, business technology and biotechnology.

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