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(608) 204-1340
nevans@madison.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 06-08
Gareth Zehrbach
4201 Buckeye Road
Madison, WI 53716
(608) 204-1079
gzehrbach@madison.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: KG-03
Manitowoc Public
School District
Dawn LeLou-Matte
1010 Huron Street
Manitowoc, WI 54221-1657
(920) 686-4740
leloumatted@mpsd.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 01-08
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 Nuestro Mundo Community School
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.
Mark Swanson
PO Box 1657
(920) 686-4777
www.mpsd.k12.wi.us
• Manitowoc, WI 54221-1657
Est. 2007 Manitowoc County Comprehensive Charter School
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 decision-making in the family
team, balancing and coordinating natural (informal) support people (relatives,
friends, and neighbors) with formal service providers (therapists, teachers,
and social workers).
Instruction will be provided to MCCCS students using Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a research-based psychological approach shown
to be effective for a wide range of problems. Instructional practices will
embed this healing developmental approach in various ways, through
bibliotherapy, service learning, restorative justice, and other strategies
appropriate to the individual students.