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Families Bond, Boogie at Family Dance

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Gladiola Elementary School students perfected line dances twirled, do-si-doed with their parents, and ate sweet treats at the annual Family Dance. For families it was...

New Sense of Belonging Leads to Improved Grades, Behavior

Wyoming Erin Albanese
As a school social worker and black woman, Brooke Davis found a trend at Wyoming Junior High School distressing: The African-American girl population was...

Special Olympics Athletes Find Joy, Confidence on the Slopes

Wyoming Erin Albanese
For Brianna Salazar, swooshing her way downhill and between flags while skiing the giant slalom feels exhilarating. "I love that experience. I never thought I'd...

Junior High Students Cha-Cha Through the Semester

Wyoming Erin Albanese
When physical-education teacher Rebecca Flood was assigned to teach dance to junior high students, she knew how to square dance, but that was pretty...

Chromebook Funding, Fundraising, Moving Slowly

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Arlhyn Madrigal checked math homework and Delfina Hernandez played a game called "Buzz Math" on their Chromebooks in their sixth-grade Wyoming Intermediate School classroom. "It's...

Reading Windfall: Schools Passing Out Free Books for Elementary Students

Wyoming Erin Albanese
The holiday season will bring books, books and more books to Wyoming Public Schools elementary buildings. Oriole Park and Parkview elementary schools each is receiving...

Frontiers: Meeting Student Needs Through Online Programming

Wyoming Erin Albanese
When her mother died last summer, Wyoming Senior Tashia Sheneman lost a permanent place to live and has since moved several times. One of...

Volunteer’s Design Skills Help Make Stage Magic

Wyoming Erin Albanese
The wooden structures stood sturdy in Wyoming Public Schools' Dan Heintzelman auditorium. Greg Brooks and a crew of workers added final pieces to what...

Wyoming Girls Drive Robot to Semi-Final Finish

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Manning, or (wo)manning, the Wyoming High School robot resulted in a semi-final finish at a special Girls Only First Robotics competition at Bloomfield Hills...

TEAM 21 Connects Students with Mentors, Fun

Wyoming Erin Albanese
With their hands covered in flour, Yeriel Francis-Estrada and his friends measured two cups and plopped them in a bowl for a science experiment....

A Very Special Teacher for Special Kids

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher
Some years back on a Fourth of July, schoolteacher Sarah Bolema fielded a phone call from a distraught student's mom. To the mother's horror,...

Encouraging Community Reading with a Little Free Library

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Tracey Davis-Replogle has big plans for miniature free libraries: scatter them throughout Wyoming to motivate everyone to grab a book and read for enjoyment. "I...

Volunteer Builds Robots to Teach Engineering

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Students on the Wyoming High School FIRST Robotics team explain their robots’ ball-launching mechanism with notes of pride in their voices as they talk...

Retiring Custodian a “Superhero Listener”

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Many who have walked the halls at Oriole Park Elementary School know Bob Pickard is a superhero. To students who have inquired about this cleaning-carted...

Wyoming School Entrances to Become Secured This Summer

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Construction will take place this summer to secure entrances at Wyoming Public Schools' eight school buildings, a project Wyoming Superintendent Tom Reeder said is...

TEAM 21 Funding to Restore Cut Programs

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
For Claribel Ortiz, having a place for her four children to go after school and in the summer while she works helps a lot. She...
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