Thursday, February 21, 2013
Dana Oschmann is just 16 and on track to graduate after just six semesters.
For the last 10 days or so, Greenfield High School juniors, sophomores and freshmen have been registering for courses for the 2013-14 school year. Some are picking classes based on likes and interest, while others are seriously planning for their futures after high school. But for one student, 16-year-old Dana Oschmann, this week’s registration process has been a breeze. That’s because she didn’t have to participate. Oschmann, a junior by age – she turns 17 on Feb. 25 – but senior in status, is on track to graduate a full year early. Her request to graduate after just six semesters instead of the customary eight was approved by the Greenfield School Board in January. “I’ve always been very school-driven and goal-driven,” Oschmann said. “I …
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Nearly 100 students competed at Briggs & Stratton Corp. Thursday in the Junior Achievement Business Challenge. Check out some of the team photos!
Students from Greenfield High School and 19 other area schools took a walk in some big shoes Thursday when they worked one-on-one with local business leaders at the Junior Achievement Business Challenge at Briggs & Stratton Corp. Greenfield's team did so well, they'll be competing in the Statewide Business Challenge in Sheboygan on April 25. These teens got the chance to test their intellect at running a business using a hands-on computer simulation. From choosing what products to buy, just how much of that product, marketing and capital investments to research and development choices, they were all acting CEOs for a day. "This challenge is uniquely positioned to help the students use their creativity, test their leadership skills and …
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Senior guard Ricky Santiago could become just the third boys basketball player in school history to score 1,000 career points when the Hawks host Whitnall on Tuesday.
Hundreds of basketball players have laced up their kicks and stepped out on the court for the Greenfield Hustlin’ Hawks basketball team. Only two have done what senior guard Ricky Santiago is on the verge of doing. With 18 points in a 86-60 loss to Brown Deer on Friday, Santiago moved into third place on the school’s all-time leading scorers list. He now is just 11 points shy of 1,000 in his career and could reach the mark when the Hawks host crosstown rival Whitnall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. “It’s honestly shocking,” said Santiago, whose 989 career points place him behind only Pete Binelas’s school-record 1,250 and Nick Smith’s 1,156. “I didn’t really plan to do this. It wasn’t a goal I set until this year when I noticed I was really close to…
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Greenfield High School students began assembling care packages for Wisconsin soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, and will be sending out the packages this week.
Greenfield High School students are sending dozens of care packages and letters to Wisconsin soldiers recently deployed to Afghanistan this week. The care package project began in December when students wrote and sent soldiers holiday greetings and expressed their thanks to them for their service. The high school homerooms “adopted” one soldier each; coincidentally, there were the same number of homerooms as soldiers. The project began when social studies teacher Adrienne McKeown, who is helping to coordinate the project with the Greenfield High School Air Force Junior ROTC, and fellow members of the homeroom committee — art teacher Jeremy Chupp, band director Evan Marlowe and math teacher Elizabeth Siebenlist — wanted to use the holidays …
The team hopes to raise as much as $3,000 as it did in 2012.
On Sunday, Feb. 10, the Hypothermic Hawks of Greenfield High School will be in action in Muskego. That’s right, the Hypothermic Hawks. That afternoon, Greenfield School District representatives – teachers, students and administrators – will compete in the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics at Muskego County Park. The plunging for the 12th-annual event begins at noon. “It’s great how the high school has gotten involved,” said Paula Schwartz, a special education paraprofessional in the district and the high school’s Special Olympics agency manager. “It’s wonderful how many students want to be a part of it.” For Schwartz, it is her 11th time participating. “I remember the first time I did it I thought, ‘How hard can this be, getting into some …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Through hundreds of hours of hard work, Greenfield High School special education teacher Christy Timms has joined a very select group of teachers.
Through hundreds of hours of hard work, Greenfield High School special education teacher Christy Timms has joined a very select group of teachers. As reported by Greenfield Patch earlier this month, Timms became one of just 79 teachers from Wisconsin to attain National Board Certification this year from the United States Department of Education, joining a group of 100,000 across the country. Timms joins Elm Dale Elementary School teacher Debbie Mitchell and Edgewood Elementary School teacher Cathy Schulz, both of whom previously earned National Board Certification. In order to earn certification, educators must include four portfolio entries that feature teaching practice and six constructed response exercises that assess content …
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Christy Timms earned certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which is one of the highest credential available for educators.
A Greenfield High School teacher has earned arguably the highest national teaching credential available. Christy Timms earned certification for exceptional needs specialist/early childhood through young adulthood through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Just 100,000 teachers around the nation have earned this level of certification. A total of 79 teachers from Wisconsin earned that honor this year. The teachers earned their certifications after a series of assessments including four portfolio entries that feature teaching practice and six constructed response exercises that assess content knowledge. The entire certification process takes between one and three years to complete. Wisconsin is among approximately two-…
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
From elementary school to college, students from Greenfield proved the future is bright by accomplishing big things in 2012.
Greenfield students of all ages made a name for themselves in 2012. From winning a state title to landing a scholarship, they gave a glimpse of their bright futures by taking on big challenges. Here are some of our favorites student achievements of the past 12 months.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The debate over what time high school students should start the day continues in Greenfield. It is cheaper for the district to start high school earlier because it saves on transportation costs, but tardies are high and early times aren't great for teens.
The issue of the start time at Greenfield High School keeps coming back. The problem: It's far cheaper for the district to have high schoolers start their day at 7:10 a.m., but that time isn't helping the teenage students excel (or even get to school on time). Tardiness is a major problem at the school, and the board debated school start time solutions at the most recent meeting. When the start time moved five minutes ahead, from 7:15 to 7:10 a.m. in the 2007-08 school year, tardies doubled. Unexcused tardies to school went from 4,086 in 2006-07 to 7,956 in 08-08. They have remained above 7,000 every year since. Administrators told the board it will cost about $200,000 a year in transportation costs to move the start time. Some board …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Some members of the Greenfield School Board want to change the high school start times, a year and a half after the administration's latest proposal was shot down
In an effort to address the Greenfield School District's on-again, off-again hot topic of school start times without experiencing a significant fiscal impact, district administrators are looking outside the box. Mostly because their inside-the-box ideas have not gained the majority of the School Board’s approval. Nearly a year and a half after the Greenfield School Board voted down a proposal to change Greenfield High School's start times from 7:10 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. or later because of concerns of additional busing costs, administrators offered a few new ideas Monday. The ideas, all in the early stages of development, revolve around the school’s tardiness problem. In 2007-08, when the GHS start time changed from 7:15 a.m. to 7:10 a.m., the…
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I had enough credits to graduate a semester early, but my guidance counselor urged me to stay and take the fun courses, after all my parents tax dollars were paying for me to be there. I wish I had taken the Art Classes from the beginning. They changed my life! I took night school Art Classes for years, and now, in retirement, take the senior classes. I learned that I NEED to create things with … more ›