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https://shorewoodripples.com/1676/news/school-district-takes-measures-against-pandemic/
The Shorewood School District, in conjunction with other North Shore districts including Whitefish Bay, closed at 5 p.m. on March 13 to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, commonly referred to as “coronavirus,” a virus that causes the disease COVID–19. The closing applies to all four schools, ac...
Papers were distributed in homeroom today! Check out our spread featuring SHS students who make music!
Did you see SHS Drama’s most recent musical? Check out the Urinetown review on our website! Link in bio.
Photo by Jaaron Langford
Read about girls cross country’s first ever state win, and why Coach Kopplin is retiring from coaching after 19 years. Link in bio. Photo by Lily Hudson.
Read our newest articles about AFS showcase, boys soccer at state, and what Superintendent Davis has to say about safety procedures. Photos: Leland Hanewall
A Shorewood High School student was arrested after another student reported a “hit list” to the school administration at 10:00 am. The list was confirmed to be real and the suspected author was in possession of a loaded magazine of ammunition. The district notified parents through Infinite Campu...
Read about the girls cross country team win in Minnesota at their most recent meet!
https://shorewoodripples.com/1025/sports/girls-xc-takes-home-first-at-roy-griak-invitational/
On September 28, the girls cross country team placed first in the Roy Griak Invitational, making it the first time Shorewood has won the meet in 10 years. The meet, located at the University of Minnesota, is the biggest meet that the team participates in every year. The top ten runners compete in th...
Read our newest article about the school district biology teacher changes and Mr. Beckers’ move to the middle school this school year!
https://shorewoodripples.com/919/news/biology-teacher-moves-to-the-middle-school/
James Beckers, former biology and AP Biology teacher at the high school, is moving to the intermediate school this year, where he will teach seventh grade science. “I have a handful of years left teaching, and I wanted to try a new challenge and have it be something I can really get excited about,...
Guess what? Ripples has a new website! Go to shorewoodripples.com to check out the website and read more about grade inflation! Article by Naomi Raicu and graphic by Zoey Nahmmacher-Baum.
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Blue's Egg and The Ruckus received Shorewood's last two liquor licenses.
See the sights and hear the sounds from the very first Trek Festival, a mountain biking event in Waterloo, WI. Reed Falkner accompanied the Shorewood Mountain Biking team and captured moments from throughout their weekend. See the video below, and be sure to check out Issue 3 of Ripples, out today in homeroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGJi9p_y6M&feature=youtu.be
The Shorewood Mountain Bike team recently attended the very first Trek Festival. This weekend long event consisted of live music, moving screenings, a ride a...
Greetings Shorewood! We here at Ripples hope everyone has been settling in to the new academic year and are looking forward to a year of excellent living and learning within the community of Shorewood!
With a new school year comes a new volume of Ripples! Issue One, distributed to students yesterday, features the summer experiences of several students who travelled with CIEE. Beautifully complementing the written work by Olivia Poole, junior, comes a video created by Reed Falkner, senior.
Detailing the experiences of Callie Cade, junior, and Will Vuyk, senior, take a few minutes to hear about these students' experience of going abroad and what it means to them.
https://youtu.be/MBwU_7NXGz4
Subscribers, keep an eye out for Issue One, being mailed out tomorrow, and look forward to more digital content as we embark upon the 2017-18 school year.
This year, 13 Shorewood students travelled with CIEE on adventures around the world. We interviewed 2 of them to get a closer look at their trips. Thank you ...
The Ripples college map for the class of 2017! Check out the map and the rest of Issue 10: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/volume_95__issue_10
Happy first day of summer, students! What a year it has been, and where did the time go?! A special congratulations goes out to our 6th graders at Atwater/Lake Bluff, our 8th graders at SIS, and especially our SHS Class of 2017 who all graduated yesterday! (Check out this cool Class of 2017 College Map created by SHS student Max Janeiro.)
We are so proud of ALL of our students in the District and we hope everyone in the Shorewood community has an amazing summer. Another great year in the books!
#ShorewoodPride #HappySummer
Happy last day of school, Shorewood! The 2016-2017 Volume 95 staff sincerely thanks you for actively engaging with our paper over the past year. Best of luck to our outgoing seniors on Ripples — and all the seniors at SHS — and keep your eye out for another fantastic year of reporting, beginning in just three short months, by the highly capable Volume 96 staff. Enjoy your summer, Shorewood! 💕☀️✌🏻
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Congratulations are in order! 2 students from Shorewood earned a National Merit Scholarship this year - a high honor.
Issue 10 was mailed out earlier this morning!
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TONIGHT! Come view a showcase that you won't want to miss, at Colectivo Coffee! Check out what the Shorewood High School Visual Journalism students have been doing all semester!
For the final Race Reflections of the year, high school students offer their experiences with race in the district and their suggestions for improving race relations in the district. Read more at issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/volume_95__issue_10 or in Issue 10, which was distributed at the end of 7th hour on Friday and will be mailed out to subscribers this week. (Photo by Maeve McKaig).
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A huge congratulations goes to our Varsity Girls Soccer team who defeated Big Foot High School yesterday (6-1) to become the WIAA Regional Champs... for the SECOND year in a row! Great work, ladies! #ShorewoodProud #GreyhoundsAthletics
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As is tradition now, SpringFest was held out on the front lawn today during lunchtime! Students enjoyed some tasty grilled food, relaxed in the sunshine, listened to music, and signed each other's yearbooks! There is definitely a feeling of summer in the air...
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Congratulations to SHS Junior Katie Eder who was recently named one of America's TOP 10 youth volunteers of 2017 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards!
As a National Honoree, she received an additional $5,000 award, an engraved gold medallion, and a crystal trophy for Shorewood High School. She also will be able to choose a nonprofit charitable organization to receive a $5,000 grant from The Prudential Foundation. What a cool honor! Not only that, but Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist Michael Phelps personally congratulated her at the ceremony! #ShorewoodProud
Read more here: http://www.shorewood.k12.wi.us/page.cfm?p=2618&newsid=1655
Tonight at 8 p.m., the Jazz Estate, the Jazz Combo, a spinoff group of SHS's Jazz Ensemble, will take the stage for a headlining performance. Don't miss this free event showcasing Shorewood students at an iconic Milwaukee venue. Read the story in Issue 10 of Ripples: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/volume_95__issue_10. (Paper copies of Issue 10 will be distributed tomorrow, due to delays. Apologies to those who were anxious to get their hands on the final issue of the year in homeroom today).
Today's the day! The final issue of Volume 95 comes out in homeroom. Check out the class of 2017 college map on pages 8-9. Read online: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/volume_95__issue_10
A nice candid of our Issue 10 editorial meeting taken by the one and only JDJ. We end the year with an assessment of progress made in implementing the themes that came out of the Shorewood Schools Summit. Read more in the last issue of Volume 95, out Wednesday.
We have visitors! And they brought a #fakenews cake! How nice!
Coup d'état.
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A big shout out to the SHS Varsity Boys Tennis team who won the Woodland Conference Tournament yesterday.... for the first time EVER! Wooohooo! (Not to mention they also won the dual meet championship last week.) Keep up the good work, boys. We wish them the best of luck as they head into Sub-Sectionals on May 22nd and Sectionals on May 24th.
#ShorewoodProud #ShorewoodGreyhounds
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Tonight is opening night of the SHS spring musical The Secret Garden! Check out a sneak peek below. [Photo credit: John O'Hara & Katelin Watson]
Showtimes (in the SHS Gensler Theatre):
Thurs. May 18, 7pm
Fri. May 19, 7pm
Sat. May 20, 2pm & 7pm
Tickets are available at the door! Additionally, the SHS Drama Dept has teamed up with New Horizons to create a "secret garden" fundraiser. Attendees can purchase a hanging basket or a potted plant outside the Performing Arts Building after the four Secret Garden performances: $5-8 for terra cotta planted annuals and $40 for a hanging basket. All proceeds from the sale will go directly to help the Drama and New Horizon's programs grow.
Hope to see you there! #ShorewoodDrama #ShorewoodProud
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On Tuesday night, May 16, we hosted our first annual Shorewood School District Authentic Learning Showcase in the SHS Arena.
The event was a huge success and collectively we had nearly 500 people in attendance. For the first half of the event, students and teachers from all our schools and across all grade levels showed off their authentic learning projects to parents and community members. For the remainder of the evening, five student groups took to the main stage tell their authentic learning stories.
We look forward to continuing this tradition next year! #ShorewoodProud
Carol McWade, secretary and class of 1970, works at her desk in the high school main office. McWade will retire at the end of this year after 20 years with the district. Read the full story in Issue 9: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/updated_volume_95__issue_9
Students, teachers and administrators spoke and presented at the first annual Authentic Learning Showcase about authentic learning experiences at Atwater, Lake Bluff, the intermediate school, New Horizons Charter School and the high school. Read more about the Showcase and the district's progress toward implementing authentic learning in Issue 10 of Ripples, out May 31. #ShorewoodProud
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Check out our live-stage presentations from the Shorewood School District Authentic Learning Showcase! #ShorewoodProud
We spotted some Ripplers at the Authentic Learning Showcase. Read more in Issue 10! #ShorewoodProud
Mia Pergl (top) and Payton Anapol (bottom), seniors, display their artwork. Both seniors will be attending MIAD next year to continue creating art. Read more in Issue 9: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/updated_volume_95__issue_9. Also check out Issue 8 to read about seniors who have committed to playing sports in college: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/volume_95__issue_8. More to come in Issue 10!
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Tomorrow evening, don't miss the BIGGEST K-12 event of the school year... the Shorewood Authentic Learning Showcase!
It's going to be a blast & you're going to learn a LOT from our students! We hope to see EVERYONE there! #ShorewoodProud
RSVP today: https://tinyurl.com/AuthenticLearningShowcase2017
Bemjamin Bussen, senior, rallies with JJ Lambert, junior, during a practice at the tennis courts at Atwater. The boys varsity tennis team plays the championship match for the conference title tonight. Read more about this year's boys tennis team in Issue 9: https://issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/updated_volume_95__issue_9. (Photo by Penelope Musto).
Angela Patterson speaks at the school board meeting on May 9, prior to a meet and greet for Lake Bluff parents and community members. Patterson's contract for Lake Bluff principal was approved 4-0 by the board this evening, and she will take over as principal after Eric Norland's resignation, beginning in the 2017-18 school year.
Ashley Kinnard, senior, runs after school for track and field practice. Kinnard is the first African American female from SHS to particpate in cross country sectionals. Issue 9's Race Reflections examines race and diversity in athletics at the high school. Read more: https://issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/updated_volume_95__issue_9
Tennessee Wallick, junior, builds a mask flat with a UWM student for their spring musical, Arcadia. UWM’s Peck Theater was mostly destroyed in a fire, and Shorewood offered to share space with them. Read more in Issue 9, which was mailed out to subscribers earlier this week: https://issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/updated_volume_95__issue_9 (Photo by Katie Eder).
Ruth Treisman makes comments after retiring after 16 years on the school board at the April 25 meeting. Read about Treisman and her years of service in Issue 9 of Ripples, out May 3.
North Shore Now
Important information for residents in the Village of Shorewood, Wisconsin.
Shorewood School District
"The Village of Shorewood has issued the following Precautionary Boiled/Bottle Drinking Water Advisory (click link below).
We will be taking the necessary precautions with our food service to make sure our food is safe for lunch. We will also be covering all drinking fountains so they are not used. We will be providing each school bottled water to be used during the advisory.
All scheduled activities will continue as planned."
-Bryan Davis, Shorewood Schools Superintendent
Link to advisory: http://www.shorewood.k12.wi.us/uploaded/Our_District/Communication_News/Apr_17/PRECAUTIONARY_BOIL_PLANNED_DRAFT_SHOREWOOD_WW.pdf?1493136914536
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Over the past four days, 13 SHS students became diplomats at the 2017 Northwestern Model UN Conference in Evanston, IL!
Representing Cameroon, Finland, Suriname, South Africa, the U.S. Senate, the 1980 I.O.C. and the historical Treaty of Versailles, the delegates discussed issues like climate adaptation, political movements, and intranational conflicts.
It was a perfect hands-on opportunity for our students and they all had a great experience! #ShorewoodProud
Students attend Prom in 2016, where the event took place in the arena. The event will return tonight to the Renaissance Place. Read more in Issue 8: issuu.com/shorewoodripples/docs/volume_95__issue_8. Enjoy your evening, Shorewood! Send us your Prom photos! (Photo by Sydney Widell).
Ripples are now at Lake Bluff, Atwater and SIS! Be sure to grab a copy. This is a picture of Ripples displayed in the Lake Bluff lobby, courtesy a parent:
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Students rock climb at Adventure Rock MKE as part of the new rock climbing club. Maya Schneider writes about the new club for Issue 3, out Oct. 26. (Video courtesy Eric Gietzen).
Check out this video of Sarah Goldberg's, senior, opening at the national mock trial competition in Boise, ID from earlier this month. We wrote about the Shorewood teams after they won regionals, before the varsity team took top spots at the state competition: https://shorewoodhsripples.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/mock-trial-takes-the-top-spots-at-regionals/ (Video courtesy Balen Essak).
Ella Curran, senior, sings "Habanera," from the Bizet's "Carmen." Curran recently performed in the St. Ann's talent show at Turner Hall Ballroom. The orchestra will be playing this piece, as well as the rest of the "Carmen" suite, on their upcoming trip to France and Spain. Catch both of these stories in the next issue of Ripples, coming Wednesday, in print and online! Read a teaser of our Issue 7 editorial on our website now.
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