With only one month left before the end of the school year, now is a good time to note where the AASD high schools started the year grade wise. Once the year ends we’ll be able to compare where they ended up to where they […]
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Appleton Area School District
AASD Accepting Public Comment On Proposed Science Curricula
The Appleton Area School District is accepting public comment on proposed science curricula for grades K-5 and grade 6. The deadline to submit those comments is 5pm on Thursday May 6, 2021. The K-5 curriculum is called “Mystery Science” and looks like it was created […]
AASD Has No Records Regarding The Number Of Students Offered Virtual Plus Services
I have been trying to get a handle on what the Appleton Area School District has been doing in response to the academic struggles of their high school students. Those struggles were apparent as early as when the first quarter grades were released. For example, […]
Board Of Education Meeting Scheduled For 04/26/2021
The Appleton Area School District Board of Education is meeting 04/26/2021 at 6PM. This will be the first meeting that Ed Ruffolo will be participating in as a Board member. They will be electing Board officers and appointing a CESA 6 Representative and a WASB […]
Board Of Education Votes To Add 2.67 Additional Hours of Instructional Time Per Week To 9-12 Grade Schedule For Last 5 Weeks Of School
The Appleton Area School District Board of Education held a special meeting 04/21/2021 to consider the addition of a new learning model for the grades 9-12 educational framework. The original proposed plan would have kept Wednesdays virtual and then added 15 minutes of additional instructional […]
Board Of Education To Consider Changes To 7-12 Instructional Model
The Appleton Area School District Board of Education is holding a special meeting tonight, 04/21/2021, to consider changes to the learning model for grades 7-12. Per the memo attached to the meeting details, the school administrative team is proposing to keep Wednesdays fully virtual but […]
Board Of Education Holds Charter School Contract Renewal Until Next Regular Meeting
The Appleton Area School District Board of Education met 04/12/2021. One of the items they took up was the 5 year contract renewals for the Fox Cities Leadership Academy charter school and the Foster Elementary Charter School. [I found this entire discussion interesting because it […]
Board Of Education Holds Discussion Of Learning Models Until Special Board Meeting The Week Of April 19
One of the items on the agenda for the 04/12/2021 Appleton Area School District Board of Education meeting was “Potential Updates to Safe and Resilient Framework (Secondary Learning Model Options)” This ended up not being discussed and instead was held until a Special Board meeting […]
Board Of Education Discusses Draft Language Of School Renaming Policy
The Appleton Area School District Board of Education met 04/12/2021 Although not up for a vote, the board did discuss the proposed changes to the school facility naming policy. Updating this policy to include guidelines on renaming facilities is a precursor to removing the name […]
AASD Refuses To Say How Many Failing Students Received Virtual Plus Assistance
For reasons that I don’t entirely understand, it continues to be difficult to gather specific details about programs offered by the Appleton Area School District. It took some back and forth to learn that, although the school year ends in only two months, the Graduation […]