2009-10 Yearbook - School Management Services

Madison
Metropolitan
School District
Daniel A. Nerad
545 West Dayton Street
(608) 663-1607
www.madison.k12.wi.us
Madison, WI 53703
Est. 1995 69. James C. Wright Middle School
Nancy Evans
1717 Fish Hatchery Road
Madison, WI 53713
(608) 204-1340
nevans@madison.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 06-08
The James C. Wright Middle School, named for one of Madison’s civil
rights pioneers, is a school of choice for students in grades 6-8. Wright’s
population is diverse: More than 80 percent of its students are from racial
or ethnic minority groups, including African American, Hmong, and
Hispanic. Fifty percent are from low-income families, and just 45 percent
live at home with both parents. In addition to regular education classes,
Wright offers special programming for students with learning and
emotional disabilities. With an ethnically and culturally diverse staff and
innovative and flexible ways of teaching, the school provides its students
with the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to participate fully in
an evolving global society. School staff members accomplish this goal
through three major themes: integrated curriculum, integrated
technology, and integrated community.
Est. 2004 70. Nuestro Mundo Community School
Javier Bolivar
4201 Buckeye Road
Madison, WI 53716
(608) 204-1068
jbolivar@madison.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: KG-03
Nuestro Mundo Community School (NMCS) is the first public
English/Spanish two-way immersion school in the Madison Metropolitan
School District (MMSD). The goals of NMCS are to help all students
learn to think, speak, read, and write in both Spanish and English; excel
academically; develop positive cross-cultural relationships; and promote
participation in multicultural communities.
The school is open to English-dominant and Spanish-dominant
speakers interested in this distinctive program. NMCS’s curriculum
is academically rigorous, community-based, child-centered, and
multicultural. The curriculum and instructional strategies reflect students’
developmental levels in both cognitive and linguistic areas. Specifically,
teachers plan academic instruction in accordance with students’ language
proficiencies. In kindergarten thru second grade, students receive most of
their instruction in Spanish. All students, regardless of their language
background, learn how to read and write first in Spanish, then in English.
This early emphasis on Spanish instruction benefits both language
groups. The proportion of English increases with each grade level.
Manitowoc Public
School District
Mark Swanson
P.O. Box 1657
(920) 686-4781
www.mpsd.k12.wi.us
Manitowoc, WI 54221
Est. 2007 71. Manitowoc County Comprehensive Charter School
Kristen Lee
1010 Huron Street
Manitowoc, WI 54221-1657
(920) 683-4780
leek@mpsd.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 01-08
The Manitowoc County Comprehensive Charter School (MCCCS) has
been established in response to the growing population of young children
identified as having an emotional or behavioral disability with severe
mental health issues. MCCCS provides a cooperative, comprehensive,
and seamless framework of resources that provides a safe, caring school
community to meet the academic, therapeutic, social and emotional needs
of students in grades 1-8 with severe mental health issues. We will utilize
the Coordinated Services Team (CST) concept, which centers decisionmaking
in the family team, balancing and coordinating natural (informal)
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