Year 1: 2025-26

You can now find our Portrait of a Graduate in every school. This defines the traits students should develop by the time they graduate. It serves as a shared vision for student success that reflects our community’s values and aspirations while helping prepare students for college, career, and life readiness in a rapidly changing world. The Portrait of a Graduate also serves as a communication tool for families, staff, and the community about what it means to be a successful graduate of our district.

Throughout the school year, our staff focused on ensuring that students successfully learned the core reading and writing skills for their grade levels. This included using teaching practices aligned with the Science of Reading, specifically targeting foundational skills and growing our students' vocabulary. Because of this, our students have demonstrated a stronger awareness of letter sounds and an increased ability to decode words using explicit rules and patterns. Next school year, our focus will shift towards reading comprehension and writing. This will allow us to help students understand what they read more deeply while building strong, confident writing skills.

Mathematics Initiatives

 

This school year, our staff learning focused on teaching the priority standards at each grade level. We also refined our curriculum planning guides to provide greater clarity for both teachers and students on how math skills progress and build toward proficiency over time. Looking ahead to the next school year, our staff learning will focus on the mathematical practices that strengthen early numeracy skills, deepen conceptual understanding, and build fluency. Families interested in supporting these foundational math skills at home this summer are encouraged to explore our Family & Caregiver Math Practice Guide. Click here to view the Family & Caregiver Math Practice Guide. 

The FastBridge mySAEBRS survey is a short check-in that helps our school understand how students are doing socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. It is a universal screener, which means all students (in our case grades 2-11) complete it so we can make sure everyone is getting the support they need to be successful at school. The survey asks simple questions about things like stress, emotions, friendships, focus, and behavior.  The goal is to help adults better understand how students feel, so we can provide appropriate interventions and support.

This past year, our board approved the addition of three concurrent enrollment courses: English 101, English 102, and Precalculus. These courses are being offered in partnership with UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay, but they are taught within our schools by our teaching staff. The courses allow students to receive high school credit and college credit concurrently. This is an exciting step towards more students receiving transferable college credit while they are with us in WAWM.

This year, we completed a Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment to evaluate our Career and Technical Education programs and identify opportunities for growth. Through stakeholder feedback, student interest surveys, and labor market analysis, we confirmed strong demand for our current pathways and identified key priorities for strengthening student access to high-quality, career-focused learning experiences.

 

Looking ahead to next year, we will focus on expanding opportunities for students to earn transcripted coursework, allowing them to gain valuable college credit while still in high school and better prepare for postsecondary education and careers.

 

We also plan to increase opportunities for students to earn industry-recognized credentials, participate in Career and Technical Student Organizations, and engage in meaningful work-based learning experiences, including Youth Apprenticeships. Additionally, we will continue exploring future pathway expansion opportunities, including engineering related programming, while ensuring our current pathways remain aligned with workforce needs and student interests.