#SMWay Podcast

This week we’re talking about the budget. When it comes to schools, it’s vitally important to know how we pay for our students to be educated. Knowing how school funding works sheds light on what we’re able to provide for students in the classroom. Teachers, staff, and programs cost money. What we are able to pay for depends on how much we receive from the State of Wisconsin and city taxpayers. Th...

Any job you have in your career, whether it's hands-on like construction or in an office setting or anywhere in between, employees who are most successful can manage their stress productively and in a healthy way, respond appropriately to setbacks, and manage conflict with coworkers. Having a grasp of these skills may well determine if you keep a job if you get promoted, and how easy it is to find...

Learning to read is one of the most important skills students learn at school. It’s the base upon which everything is built. How we learn to read and write is a subject of constant study and how we teach it changes, too. In this episode, we peek inside a classroom and see how collaboration amongst teachers from different disciplines, combined with data, is tailoring literacy education to third gra...

Meet District Nurse Supervisor Stephanie Cahlamer. She's a pediatric critical care nurse, Pediatric SANE Forensic nurse, and Project Adam Advocate with experience as a flight nurse, an EMT and a Firefighter. She's also the head of a team that is more integrated in learning than ever. Modern school nursing programs are more than Band-Aids, ice packs, and hugs. Cahlamer's team manages health plans,...

Science Technology Engineering and Math. STEM. STEM is about the scientific method, and why these fields matter. It's also about life skills: trying, failing, troubleshooting, trying again -- really becoming invested in a project to accomplish a goal. Today we hear from the South Milwaukee Middle School's new dynamic STEM teacher, about her students and how her program ties science education and C...

Our school teams are presenting School Improvement Plans to the School Board - we talk to Christie Gajewski, director of curriculum and instruction about what School Improvement Plans are, what they mean, and how we're changing Public Education for the better.