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Gibraltar Acceptance Project reaches beyond classroom

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Gibraltar School District seventh- and eighth-grade students are creating poetry, art and short films to teach others about acceptance.

The students are in the midst of the Friends of Gibraltar Acceptance Project. FOG’s theme this year is “celebrating uniqueness.” Seventh-grade students are writing poetry about acceptance and eighth-graders are producing short movies. The seventh-graders are also creating pieces of art to go with their writing.

The finished projects are set to be displayed during a reception and film festival Dec. 10. The plan is to display the art and poems in the Link Gallery of Children’s Art at Door Community Auditorium inside the school.

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Menominee Nation receiving honor for improving health in schools

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The Menominee Nation is receiving recognition Wednesday for efforts to improve health in the Menominee Indian School District.

The Menominee Tribal Clinic and the Menominee Indian School District joined together to bring health-related services to schools, including dental care, rooms for reflection, trauma coaching, and daily meditation in the classroom. These and other changes are revealing connections in mental and physical health improvements and academic achievement. And they are working-four-year graduation rates increased from less than 60% in 2007 to nearly 99% in 2014.

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Suamico science project gets White House’s attention

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A science project created by teachers and students at Suamico Elementary School was featured at the White House.

Their re-creation of the solar system using robotic spheres will highlight “White House Astronomy Night.”

Learning about the rotation and revolution of our solar system is part of the 3rd grade curriculum each year at Suamico Elementary School.

“And we’ve always done that with models, there’s a big sun and all the planets and they’re using the model to rotate the planets, or we’d use pieces of paper,” says principal Ryan Welnetz.

Last spring, the school created a new lesson plan, using Sphero programmable robots, controlled by the students iPads.

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