Accelerate Magazine July 2020

20 BY THE NUMBERS SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ELMBROOK Numbers fromMarch 16 - June 1, 2020. 7,300 K-12 students 525 teachers 200 teaching assistants supporting teachers and students 607,000 Google Documents Created 144,000 Google Presentations Created 500,000 Google Meetings Conducted 6,684,000 emails sent & received 2.2 million page views in Canvas Learning Management System 30,693 lunches served 16,123 breakfasts served 26,000 e-Books checked out via Overdrive Platform Three amazing author visits 621 graduating seniors 32 scholarships provided from the Elmbrook Education Foundation 23 Golden Apples awarded through the 5th Annual Engaged in Excellence Awards 21 career speakers hosted through the LAUNCH Program and completed 115 LAUNCH projects during virtual learning Six blood drives hosted, collecting over 300 products, impacting over 900 patients event featured speeches from students receiving First Honors recognition, as well as a video celebrating and listing all awards. Additionally, our faculty and staff stopped at every senior’s house, surprising them with "Grad Packs" including a cap and gown, gifts, balloons and letters from family and friends. Seniors and their families were invited to school to take commemorative graduation photos and walk across the stage, greeted by faculty and staff. Wisconsin Lutheran: We surprised seniors with customized "congrats grad" yard signs, delivered to each of them by faculty and staff. A virtual graduation video included messages from the principal, president, 2020 salutatorian and valedictorian and keynote teachers. Students were encouraged to share a video clip of themselves celebrating and a video premiered on YouTube the morning of graduation. Students and families were invited to the school for a drive-thru ceremony including a route past cheering teachers, special recognition walking up a podium for their diploma and photo ops and fun giveaways along the route. Arrowhead: Students, faculty and staff members, administrators, parents, committees of parents/ community members, local municipalities, and local businesses (including Village Graphics and HYS Marketing Products) all stepped up to make graduation special, despite being different than ever before. Arrowhead provided a five-day ceremony that included in-person components such as walking across a stage for diplomas, photos with immediate family, and a graduate car parade. It also included virtual celebrations like live-streaming of graduation speeches and 550+ graduates walking the stage every two minutes over three days, a virtual tassel and hat toss ceremony, and senior photo yard signs for every graduate lining the Arrowhead campus. Kettle Moraine: First, KMSD held 19 individual in-person graduation commencement celebrations and graduating seniors had the opportunity to cross the stage to receive a diploma. A second celebration was a virtual graduation ceremony that featured speeches from our valedictorians, individual senior slides, and highlights from the past school year. During the last week of school, seniors had an opportunity to pick up graduate yard signs, drop off books, and receive a wonderful send-off from teachers and administrators. Question: Did virtual learning provide unique opportunities for your students and staff? Stone Bank: COVID allowed time for one of our fifth graders to take the lead on a project connected to his parent's business. The student, who is passionate about design and engineering, created a light display on campus that spelled out “Class of 2020”with 3,000 individual lights. His father, who helped with the project, works at Reinders Holiday Lighting Division. COVER STORY