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Closed (Partial Funding): Build home libraries for Hintgen students
Summary: Books from the Leveled Literacy Library are used at Hintgen Elementary to develop reading skills. The program offers low-cost “grey” copies of the books that kids read in school, allowing students to take and keep them for their home libraries and continue to improve their reading. Goal: $1,100 • Amount Raised: $30, plus $30 match […]
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Closed (Partial Funding): North Woods kindergartners ‘wiggle while they work’
Summary: Help purchase Hokki stools for our kindergarten classrooms at North Woods to allow students to “wiggle while they work” and stay focused for a longer period of time while doing academic learning tasks. Goal: $2,038 • Amount Raised: $105 • School: North Woods International • Sponsor Names: Rose Kulig and Kate Hooper About Our […]
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AVID seniors determined to succeed
Nhia Thao wants to get an education that will allow him to support a family, and says AVID is preparing him for the intense classes ahead in college. Kiara Schultz would be the first in her family to go to college, and says AVID is giving her “the backbone to ask the higher-level questions” so […]
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Closed (Partial Funding): STEM Centers for North Woods Grade 1
Summary: Help purchase materials for STEM Centers that facilitate hands-on investigations in order to stimulate curiosity for science, technology, engineering, and math among 1st-graders at North Woods. Goal: $1,210 • Amount raised: $330 • School: North Woods International School • Sponsor Name: Sarah Kratt About My Project: Today’s students are tomorrow’s workforce. I feel that it is important […]
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Closed: Buy fun books to engage early readers at Summit
Summary: Help Summit buy these “approachable” books by Bob Shea that are fun and engaging for early readers. Goal: $307 • Amount Raised: $0 • School: Summit Environmental Elementary School • Sponsor Name: Lila Planavsky About My Project: I work with 4th and 5th grade students at Summit Environmental School. My students are all working toward individual goals […]
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Students show strong academic progress in second year of AVID
After two years, students in the AVID college-readiness program in La Crosse public schools continue to show strong academic progress, with grade point averages and rates of enrollment in high-level academic courses significantly ahead of their non-AVID peers. Most importantly, as nearly 50 diverse students get ready for their senior year of high school, they […]
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Closed (Partial Funding): Julia Cook Titles Inspire Social Skills
This fundraising project is closed. Summary: Help us buy these special books to guide and enhance social skills instruction by bringing these topics to life for students with intellectual disabilities. Goal: $531 • Amount raised: $160 • School: Southern Bluffs Elementary • Sponsor Name: Heidi Rouzer and Caitlin Mosel […]
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Closed (Partial Funding): Diversity in my Global Neighborhood
This fundraising project is closed. Summary: This project is aimed at engaging students in high-interest, real-life topics so that students practice and improve literacy skills in a variety of content areas. Goal: $756 • Amount raised: $80 • School: Logan Middle School • Sponsor Name: Kellie Schmitz […]
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Fundraising tops $230,000 for AVID college-readiness program
Private dollars relieve cost to taxpayers as $25,000 gift from Franke Foundation helps the La Crosse Public Education Foundation beat goal for its largest-ever campaign A college-readiness program with a proven track record nationally is well on its way to implementation and taxpayers will be saved nearly $230,000 in implementation costs due to successful fundraising […]
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AVID students mentor 5th-graders to make school ‘a better place’
Nhia Thao knows the challenge of tackling vocabulary and math assignments in Tom Sullivan’s 5th-grade classroom. Now, as a junior at Logan High School, he’s back in Mr. Sullivan’s classroom, but this time he’s helping deliver the lessons. Logan High AVID students are mentoring 5th-grade students at Northside Elementary. It is part of the AVID […]
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