Friday, May 10, 2013
Principal Paul Thusius took an unusual step to curb the school's first-hour tardy problem in late March.
Principal Paul Thusius raised quite a few eyebrows in late March when he decided to take an unorthodox approach to Greenfield High School’s massive first-hour tardy problem. The results so far may raise a few more. It’s been nearly six weeks since Thusius determined any student tardy for his or her first-hour class would spend the entire hour in the school’s Performing Arts Center rather than be allowed to go to that class late. Through the end of April, since the new policy was put in place March 21, an average of 24.7 students have had an unexcused first-hour tardy. That’s down 285 percent from the average of 70.3 unexcused first tardies according to data compiled for approximately one month just prior to the new policy’s implementation…
Monday, May 6, 2013
A wet spring that washed out plenty of competitions has led to a busy stretch for the Hustlin' Hawk golfers.
Editor's note: This recap was provided by Greenfield High School coach Paul Hetzel. Other sports recaps — varsity, jayvee, Little League, etc. — can be posted here. The Greenfield High School golf team was busy last week making up for lost time due to the extremely wet start to the 2013 season. The Hawks are fielding a young and inexperienced team this spring with seniors Alec Piekarski and Justin Cancilla bringing the most varsity experience and teaming with first-time varsity players seniors Jaron Litza and Trevor Holmes and sophomores Ben Fularczyk, Ryan Hensiak and Ben Wachniak. The team played seven matches in seven days, with results consistent with those of an inexperienced team. Scores started off higher than hoped for but have …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Two teams of three students from Greenfield competed in the Wisconsin JA Business Challenge Championship in Sheboygan on April 25.
Sixty-five of the best and brightest high school student “CEOs,” including six from Greenfield High School, competed in the annual Wisconsin JA Business Challenge Championship on April 25 in Sheboygan. The tournament was organized by Junior Achievement of Wisconsin and sponsored and hosted by ACUITY. Top teams from across the state advanced to the championship after winning regional events. Students took on roles as c-suite executives to develop management strategies for a virtual company and product using the JA Titan web-based business simulation. The teams’ business strategies included decision on price, production, marketing, capital investment, along with research and development. “We believe the Wisconsin JA Business Challenge is a …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Athletic directors and coaches have been scrambling all spring to get in matches, games and tournaments. The same can be said for Greenfield's park and rec department.
Scott Otto has the The Weather Channel’s website bookmarked on his desktop and checks it repeatedly throughout the day. The Greenfield High School athletic director and assistant principal has got the district’s grounds keeper, the city’s Park and Recreation Department, and the district’s facilities coordinator Stuart Wilke on speed-dial. And Otto has been in constant contact with his high school spring coaches and other athletic directors, all of whom, thanks to this spring’s persistence rainfall, have been forced to coordinate and orchestrate a complex schedule-juggling performance unlike many others. “It’s been a nightmare,” Otto said. “I’ve talked to other ADs in the conference and coaches that have coached 25 or 30 years and none of …
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Interim Superintendent David Ewald provided School Board members with a working draft of the school days at all three educational levels.
Weeks after the Greenfield School Board decided to change school start times for more than half its schools, including a later start for the high school, board members were given a glimpse at how that schedule could look in 2013-14. Interim Superintendent David Ewald laid out a draft of when each school office could open and close, when teacher workdays could begin and end and when students would begin classes. The Board voted for a change, now “How is that going to work next year?” Ewald said at Monday’s School Board meeting. “This is a draft. It gives us a sense of how it might work, and what (administrators) think is a good way to make it work.” Under Ewald's draft, Greenfield High School’s office would be open from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.…
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Major League Baseball-sponsored event is for girls ages 7-14, and will be April 27, at Greenfield High School.
The Greenfield Ignitors will host a free Major League Baseball Pitch, Hit & Run Competition for area youth girls this spring. The event will be 1-4 p.m. April 27, at Greenfield High School, 4800 S. 60th St. Pitch, Hit & Run is the official skills competition of Major League Baseball. This grassroots program is designed to provide youngsters with an opportunity to compete, free of charge, in a competition that recognizes individual excellence in core baseball/softball skills. Girls are divided into four age divisions: 7/8, 9/10, 11/12, 13/14, and have the chance to advance through four levels of competition, including Team Championships at Major League ballparks and the National Finals at the 2013 MLB All-Star Game. The individual pitching…
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Greenfield School Board voted, 4-3, in favor of moving the start time to 7:30 a.m., a 20-minute difference. Three other schools will have new start times as well.
After years of debate, Greenfield High School will have a later start time for the 2013-14 school year. Seven years after changing the start time to 7:10 a.m., one of the earliest start times in the state, the Greenfield School Board voted in favor of changing the start time to 7:30 a.m. starting next school year. The change has a potential price tag of approximately $216,000 in additional busing costs, a price some board members were willing to pay. “I’d like somebody to tell me what’s good about starting at 7:10,” said board member Cathy Walsh, who was one of four members to vote in favor of the move. “This has been going on for years. It’s a drain on administration. It’s a drain on the board. … When are we as a board actually going to …
Friday, March 22, 2013
After 90 students were tardy for first hour on Wednesday, principal Paul Thusius decided it was time for a drastic change.
Greenfield High School principal Paul Thusius has taken an unorthodox measure in an effort to curb the school's first-hour tardy epidemic. On Thursday, Thusius implemented a new protocol that calls for all students that are tardy first hour to report to the Performing Arts Center. They remain there for the entire first hour and are not allowed to eat or drink. They can’t text or talk and can’t listen to music. They are there to reflect on being late, Thusius said, and do homework, if they wish. Tardiness has been a huge problem at Greenfield High School in the six years since the school start time switched to 7:10 a.m. The high school had 9,671 instances of first-hour tardies during 2011-12, up from 8,591 in 2010-11. The high school had 7,…
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Three Greenfield High School students swept the first three spots at the state history bee earlier this month and have been invited to participate in the national competition.
Greenfield High School sent two teams to the Wisconsin State History Bowl and Bee, March 9, at Beloit Memorial High School, where they finished sixth and eighth. And though neither team qualified for the national bee, Greenfield swept the top three individual positions. Greenfield’s Nick Nagorski was the individual champion, followed by his teammates Zachary Roetz and John Graber. The trio, along with fourth-place winner Kyrstyn Ong of Williams Bay High School, were slots in the national competition in Arlington, VA, held the last week in April. Students for both the bowl and bee participated by choice and willingly practiced in after school study sessions with each other and their faculty advisor, Melinda Redlinger. Redlinger said, as …
Monday, February 25, 2013
The 1971 Greenfield High School graduate has been the Greenfield-Greendale boys co-op team's head coach for several years.
Dale Schrank, who has successfully coached the Greenfield-Greendale boys co-op swim team the last several years, has been named the high school's head varsity girls coach. Schrank, who has a storied career as a high school and club coach, has led the boys co-op to four WIAA sectional championships and three Woodland Conference titles and coached nine all-American swims. In just the past four years alone, Schrank’s teams have rewritten every existing boys swimming record in the school's 53-year-history. "I am very excited to return to my alma mater, and I hope to put Hawk swimming back on the map for the Greenfield High School girls swim team," Schrank said. Among his many accomplishments, Schrank, a 1971 graduate of Greenfield High School…
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