Wawasee Offering Summer Swim Lessons
SYRACUSE – Warrior Swim will be conducting American Red Cross swim lessons at Wawasee Middle School in June.
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Wawasee Virtual Learning Program Will Be Expanded
Wawasee will expand its virtual learning program into the middle school grades beginning with the 2021-22 school year. Approval was given for the expansion during the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, May 11, in Syracuse.
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Wawasee School Board Given Report On Guided Reading
Guided reading has been a piece of the reading curriculum for elementary school students in the Wawasee Community School Corporation for about the last three years. How that element works and has been effective was part of a report given during the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, April 20, in Syracuse.
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Kosciusko Chamber Of Commerce Highlights Award Recipients
Earlier this month, the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce announced the recipients of their 2020 business and individual awards during their 109th annual awards program.
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Elementary Principals Give Report On Remediation Efforts To Board
Several students have fallen behind academically as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, March 9, in Syracuse, the board heard a brief report on efforts to cut the gaps in learning from elementary school principals Eric Speicher (Syracuse), Chris Gerbers (Milford) and Lee Snider (North Webster).
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Everyday Community Heroes: A Tribute To School Bus Drivers
As Kosciusko County schools resume in-person classroom instruction, once again “the wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round.” And steering those wheels is a small army of heroes who don’t wear capes, dedicated community servants known as bus drivers.
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Wawasee Middle School Students Meet ‘Coach Seth’ In Person
Students lined the halls of Wawasee Middle School forming an indoor parade fit for a dignitary. But in the minds of some of those students, Seth Maust, most often referred to as “Coach Seth,” is comparable to a dignitary.
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Wawasee Middle School Site Of Third ‘Listen and Learn’ Meeting
Opening up the channels of communication with the public and internally was a common topic of the third “Listen and Learn” meeting held by Dr. Steve Troyer, superintendent of the Wawasee Community School Corporation, Saturday morning, Feb. 20, in the cafeteria of Wawasee Middle School. A small group of about 15 people, several of them school administrators, came to the meeting.
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5 Star Program Overview Given To Wawasee School Board
Some students don’t necessarily have problems requiring discipline, but rather have social or emotional issues that can prevent them from being in the right frame of mind to do well academically. The Wawasee Community School Corporation has placed greater emphasis on dealing with those issues in recent years.
Read MoreWawasee School Bus Involved In Slide Off
At approximately 8:10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, Wawasee Community School Corporation bus number 47 was involved in an incident on EMS D21 and D21B lanes resulting in a slide off during its morning route. The bus heading east on D21 Lane proceeded to back up and turn around on D21B Lane.
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Wawasee School Board Gets Virtual Demonstration Of Virtual Learning
Although it will never replace in person learning, virtual learning has proven to be much more effective than eLearning. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, Jan. 12, in Syracuse the board was given a virtual learning presentation by Cameron Troyer, Milford Middle School math teacher, from his classroom.
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Discount Warehouse Donates To Three Local School Corporations
Discount Warehouse owner Lloyd Bailey made a generous donation to area schools on Monday, Dec. 21.
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Dr. Troyer Has Shown Humility And Vision For Wawasee Schools
This letter is to inform the community about the new superintendent of Wawasee Schools. I have known Dr. Steve Troyer for more than two years, working with him while he was principal at the Milford School and now as assistant superintendent.
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Dr. Edington Remembered Fondly At School Board Meeting
After more than 45 years in public education as a teacher, coach, principal and superintendent, Dr. Tom Edington, superintendent of the Wawasee Community School Corporation, is retiring at the end of this month. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, Dec. 8, several current or former Wawasee administrators took time to share positive memories of their associations with Edington.
Read MoreTeacher Respects The Work Dr. Troyer Has Done
As a lifetime member of the community, graduate of Wawasee schools, and veteran teacher of 30 years in the corporation, I wanted to reach out to our community and express my feelings as I look forward to working for Dr. Steve Troyer, who was recently announced as the new superintendent of Wawasee Community School Corporation.
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Makerspace Concept A Work In Progress At WMS
There are some terms heard more often today in association with education which, in reality, are putting a label on something that has already existed in classrooms. One of those terms is “makerspace.”
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