Wisconsin Charter Schools Yearbook - School Management Services

Vicki Ritchie
830 Virginia Avenue
Sheboygan, WI 53081
(920) 459-6746
vritchie@sheboygan.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 09-12
Diane Wilcenski
721 North 6th Street
Sheboygan, WI 53081
(920) 946-2632
dwilcenski@sheboygan.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 06-12
learning pace. In addition to individual work, students work in small groups
exploring the content areas through specific skill lessons or projects. Some
of the “research work” is also implemented in small groups. The intent is to
foster a sense of community, and to develop skills in cooperation, team-work,
and social cognition.
Est. 2005 Riverview Academy Charter School
Riverview Academy Charter School serves high school students in grades 9-
12. The self-contained charter school is comprised of an innovative threepronged
educational program:
1. The Core Academy: Newly enrolled students (typically freshmen) first
participate in the Core Academy, which provides an intensive focus on
developing core skills in reading, writing, and mathematics along with a
social/behavioral support component.
2. The Career Academy: Following the Core Academy, sophomore-level
students begin staff-mentored participation in the two-year Career Academy,
which provides a standards-based, authentic curriculum in which vocational
exploration provides the integrating context. Students engage in different
Career Academy experiences based on individual interest; the charter school
offers students numerous choices to investigate a variety of careers.
3. The Graduate Academy: The last phase of Riverview Academy is the
Graduate Academy, open to senior-level students. Between August and
October of a student’s senior year, he or she meets with advisors to develop a
unique second-semester plan for a community-based internship or
apprenticeship, work experience, service-learning project, or more intensive,
classroom-based, college-preparatory course work.
Riverview Academy utilizes research-based tenets of effective
programming focusing on reading, writing, mathematics, and higher-order
thinking skills; using a curriculum supported by experiential applications of
knowledge and skills to give learning real-world relevancy.
Est. 2007 SUCCESS Academy Charter School
The SUCCESS Academy Charter School provides a safe, structured
educational setting for up to 25 middle and high school students in grades 6-
12, who have been expelled or withdrawn from their home schools. The
mission of the SUCCESS Academy is to provide continuing services in
assisting secondary students to advance in academic and social skills while
under expulsion orders and/or withdrawal agreements. Students have the
opportunity to work on academic growth, behavioral issues related to the
complexities of their at risk behaviors, and affective needs in an alternative
school setting with a low student-to-staff ratio.
Components of the post-expulsion/withdrawal SUCCESS Academy
educational program include:
Individualized Learning Plan (ILP): The plan identifies individual goals for
each student in the areas of academics, behavior, work experience or service
learning, and counseling.
• Online Learning: Courses are accessed through the eWisconsin Network.
• Service Learning/Work Experience: Work-based learning and/or servicelearning
experiences connect learning to skill and career development.
Adult mentors from the community are valuable partners to enhance the
life skill development of the students.
• Tutoring: Individual tutoring is provided to students with specific
academic or basic skill deficits.
• Counseling: The SASD psychologists/social workers provide anger
management curriculum that provides individual or small group
counseling.
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