January 10, 2020

First Grade Students Pedal Off Excess Energy.

Thanks to a grant from TwinStar Credit Union, Onalaska elementary first grade students can burn off excess energy using a stationary pedal system. 

Teachers Ms. Rushton and Ms. Thayer, and their students extend a big "Thank You" to TwinStar.

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January 6, 2020

FBLA Spaghetti Feed and Auction.

Onalaska High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) are excited to offer the 1st Annual Spaghetti Feed and Silent Auction, January 22 from 4:00-6:30 p.m. in the Onalaska Loggers high school cafeteria prior to the Onalaska boys basketball game.

Tickets ($10) are available from any FBLA member or at the Onalaska high school office. All proceeds will help the members attend the 2020 State Business Leadership Conference in Spokane, and the national qualifiers will attend the National Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City, in June.  

After 18 years of teaching, middle school teacher Deb Richardson knows what it takes to engage students. In addition to three years of elementary school teaching, Deborah has spent 15 years teaching science and ELA to middle schoolers. Currently, besides three grades of science, she is the ASB Advisor and, the Leadership, Road Trip USA, and 6th grade Enrichment teacher.

In August 2019, Deborah attended PEI's Investigating Invasive Species workshop in Nisqually and the Solutions Oriented Storylines: Forest Ecosystem Benefits – Carbon Sequestration workshop, in Battleground. In December, she attended the Solutions Oriented Storylines: Food Waste workshop in Vancouver. She began introducing her students to concepts from the workshops: Teaching them how to weed out plants that don't belong on campus, and why planting trees is important to the world. 

Students are working on using less plastic and getting rid of the foam trays in the cafeteria. "There's a lot of freedom offered in the storylines I've used from PEI," she says, "And they all work toward a healthier, more fruitful earth."

Because of her cumulative PEI professional development, she says, "I'm better at enrichment. I use 'claims evidence reasoning' in all of my teaching now."