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South Milwaukee has officially claimed its title as the Home Field Pride Contest Champions!
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Apollo Jazz performed at the annual Veteran of the Year ceremony on Veteran's Day.
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The mysterious music in this podcast replaces our signature tune in honor of today’s topic - our theater program, our student actors and the fall play – the murder-mystery-comedy Clue.
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Fifteen Career and Tech participated in the Heavy Metal Tour, sponsored by MATC and the band Metallica.
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Sarai and other students recently explored how their sewing machines work in Clothing Design and Construction. The class is one of three electives available to students in the fashion and interior design industry.
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Sarah Barrett and Meghan Nellen are the District's new nursing team.
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Senior Brady Ahler is one of 16,000 students in the nation to be named a 2024 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist. That sounds like a lot of students, but Ahler was one of 1.2 million students to take the PSAT and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) last spring.
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If you missed the first game on our new football field, see what it was like and hear from school and community members what this project means to them.
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The District is asking for the community's input on a possible operational referendum in the spring.
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Learn about the changes to the elementary report cards.
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Today, we’re talking about student report cards – specifically Elementary school report cards, because they’re changing.
How and why would a report card change? Good question. We associate report cards, as a rule, with letter grades - A, A minus, B etcetera. Get an A or B, and you’re doing well. B- or C there might be some issues, Ds and Fs indicate problems. Pretty clear markers, but not very informative and not really how we assess how elementary students are doing.
Director of Curriculum and Instruction Christie Gajewski is joining us today to talk about the change South Milwaukee elementary parents will see in the language on the report cards.
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The latest news from SDSM
South Milwaukee has officially claimed its title as the Home Field Pride Contest Champions!
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American Education Week, Youth Apprenticeship Week, student celebrations, and a School Board continues to work on a potential referendum: Superintendent Deidre Roemer's bi-weekly update.
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Apollo Jazz performed at the annual Veteran of the Year ceremony on Veteran's Day.
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Report cards are as a part of school as pencils and chalkboards. The goal of the report card is to give parents an idea of where their students are in their studies and an early warning sign that they might be struggling in a subject and need some help.
Schools and school districts have report cards too – for many of the same reasons.