2009-10 Yearbook - School Management Services

Barron Area School
District
Monti Hallberg
100 W River Avenue
(715) 537-5612
www.barron.k12.wi.us
Barron, WI 54812
Est. 2007 16. Barron Area Montessori School
Lu Karl
808 East Woodland Avenue
Barron, WI 54812
(715) 537-5612
karll@barron.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: PK-KG
The Barron Area Montessori School offers an innovative education
design based on the principles of Maria Montessori. The school
welcomes 3, 4 and 5 year olds to the Children’s House program. As
children develop within the Montessori framework, the school will
eventually expand to include an Elementary 1 program, and later an
Elementary 2 program.
Montessori education trains children to exercise individual freedom to
choose purposeful work, to physically move while learning, and to repeat
a learning activity for as often and as long as the learner likes. These
three freedoms are crucial to fostering developmental stages of learning.
Montessori students explore and collect data in their own ways; the
teacher role is to prepare the environment, to observe when children are
entering a new developmental stage and to link them to purposeful
activities that are responsive to their developmental needs.
The weekly learning schedule is organized according to Montessori
principles that require students to have long, uninterrupted daily work
periods. The five basic areas addressed in the curriculum are practical life
skills, sensorial aspects of the world, language development, mathematics
and culture. Each of these academic areas has been aligned with the
Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and with the Wisconsin Early
Childhood Standards.
In addition to providing an educationally nurturing environment that
allows children to discover and develop independence, confidence,
concentration, persistence and thoroughness, the Barron Area Montessori
School is dedicated to developing a collaborative Montessori community
of educators, parents and community members who educate themselves
and others about the Montessori philosophy of education.
Beloit School
District
Lowell Holtz
1633 Keeler Avenue
(608) 361-4016
www.sdb.k12.wi.us
Beloit, WI 53511
Est. 2007 17. Eclipse Center Charter School
Mark Dax
#26 Eclipse Center, 1701 Riverside Drive
Beloit, WI 53511
(608) 361-3340
mdax@sdb.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 09-12
The mission of the Eclipse Center Charter School (ECCS) is to provide
educational programs that allow students to approach their intellectual,
entrepreneurial, and creative potential through rigorous and relevant
instruction and development of positive relationships within a safe and
inspirational environment. The ECCS provides a diverse selection of
instructional contexts which will incorporate the characteristics of
successful schools. The “contexts” in which these characteristics are
included consists of four “strands.” The strands are: Career and Technical
Education, On-Line Learning, Concept-Based and Credit-Recovery. The
ECCS is a high performing school with a staff dedicated and committed
to ensuring the success of every student.
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