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Ve r o n a A r e a H i g h School students celebrated their cultures with classmates and the community Friday, February 16, at the annual Multicultural Showcase. Performers sang, danced and wore traditional clothing during three performances, two for their classmates and an evening show for the public. The event, put on by the school’s Multicultural Leadership Council, aims to celebrate the school’s diversity.
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The City of Verona’s plan to contribute to a new road to the new high school is not what Verona Area school board members had hoped for. Board members spent 20 minutes of their Monday night meeting calling the
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offer the city made in January “disappointing” and even “insulting” and worrying additional costs might force them to cut some of the extra amenities the district has been planning on since August. The city’s proposal to cover up to $5 million toward an entry road into the school site in exchange for the land Sugar Creek Elementary School includes several specific terms the board took issue with, and district leaders said some
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Personalized learning info event Feb. 27 Open house will demonstrate software to be used for all students SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
Every student in the Verona Area School District will have a personalized learning plan by next school year, and district officials are hoping to help parents understand what that means for their children. While the district has been discussing the concept for years and set the 2018-19 deadline in 2015, the outreach will take another step Tuesday, Feb. 27, with a personalized learning community information night from 6-7:30 p.m. at the high school. “It’s just trying to give folks an opportunity to experience some elements of personalized learning,” said district director of curriculum and
If You Go What: Personalized Learning Info Night When: 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27 Where: Verona Area High School K-Wing Info: verona.k12.wi.us instruction Ann Franke. The personalized learning plans, or PLPs, will eventually include detailed information on each student in the district, including short- and long-term goals, learning habits, strengths and weaknesses and staff members they are close to. The event will “be personalized to the needs of the participants,” she added, with areas for each of the “why, how and the what” of the concept. Franke said each of the three
will include a roundtable discussion, panel of students and teachers and a demonstration related to the Epiphany Learning software that will house the plans. “It’s really an open house concept. It’s not like you have to come right at the beginning … you can stay as long as you like,” Franke said. She said she was especially happy to have students and staff talking about how they’ve adjusted their work in school to personalized learning, and emphasized that community support will be key to the success of the personalized learning initiative. “I think there’s a lot of excitement from a student perspective to share with the community what they’ve been working on,” she said. “It’s incredibly important that we are bringing the community in and helping them to understand what we are working on.”
A plan that could enable the city’s first development north of County Hwy. PD became official Monday night, Feb. 19, after more than a year of development and debate. Though far fewer people spoke out against it this time and alders expressed fewer reservations, the 732-acre Northwest Neighborhood
plan still came under criticism for its scope, for the potential of allowing highrise apartment and commercial developments and for its limited protection of the Ice Age Trail. The Common Council discussed it for about 20 minutes before approving it 5-1, with Ald. Sarah Gaskell (Dist. 2) voting against because “there simply isn’t
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