Wisconsin Charter Schools Yearbook - School Management Services

Shorewood School
District
Tim Kenney
1701 East Capitol Drive
Shorewood, WI 53211
(414) 963-6933
tkenney@shorewood.k12.wi.us
Grade Levels: 11-12
Sparta Area School
District
Michael Roddick
711 Pine Street
Sparta, WI 54565
(608) 269-6144
mroddick@sparta.org
Grade Levels: KG-03
environments that recognize the power of language for learning.
Other concepts that provide the foundation for instruction in the charter
include a “framework for literacy,” which is a balanced literacy approach
with explicit instruction in the essential components of a K-5 reading
program: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension,
and the writing process.
A schoolwide assessment system includes school reports, reading and
writing assessment graphs, and ongoing formal and informal assessments.
Blane McCann
1701 E Capitol Dr
(414) 963-6901
www.shorewoodschools.org
Est. 2005 New Horizons for Learning
• Shorewood, WI 53211-1996
New Horizons for Learning (NHL) offers learning structures that fully
engage students by providing a meaningful and challenging academic
component integrated with a motivating and empowering life transitions
component. New Horizons serves at-risk students in grades 11-12 and is
comprehensive in addressing the needs of the whole child-academic,
career/postsecondary, and social/emotional. It offers a low student-teacher
ratio of 12:1, with emphasis on student participation, self-advocacy, and selfassessment
which helps foster a feeling of being valued and a contributor to
one’s community. Students work with the teacher for three hours per day,
during the morning or afternoon session, and are engaged the other half of
the day either in a non-core class, an internship, or a field learning experience
via community resources, area employment, and/or co-curricular activities.
The charter school’s classroom component utilizes project-based learning
methods integrating standards and core area proficiencies, cooperative
learning, online curricula, and supplemental and enrichment materials.
John Hendricks
506 N Black River St
(608) 269-3151
www.spartan.org
Est. 2004 Lakeview Montessori School
• Sparta, WI 54656-1548
Lakeview Montessori School offers an achievement-oriented, student-driven
educational choice to pre-kindergarten, through third grade students and their
families. The school nurtures the whole student with daily, specific activities
that facilitate growth in the physical, emotional, social, aesthetic, and
cognitive domains. The openness of the learning community is strengthened
by its focus on nurturing sensitivity for living things: plants, animals, and
each other. Cognitive success is assured as each student advances at his or
her own pace while studying music, language/reading, mathematics, science,
art, history, and geography. Student-directed learning allows students to
advance academically as fast and far as they desire, or to work slowly with a
more gentle increase in challenge. Teachers receive intensive training in the
Montessori philosophy and methods. Lakeview Montessori School readily
involves parents and community members in the educational process. Parents
and community members serve on the Site Council, thereby having direct
control over the direction, accountability, and future of Lakeview Montessori
School. They participate in their child's educational experience as well as in
the management and global evaluation of the school.
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