Valparaiso Community Schools

Grant Funds Extend Conservation Education into Valparaiso Schools

Grant Funds Extend Conservation Education into Valparaiso Schools The Izaak Walton League of America - Porter County Chapter has been holding their free Family Nature Nights in Duneland schools for years. Family Nature Nights allow families to creatively explore aspects of ecology. By spraying a model city with...

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Valparaiso Community Schools: Life Skills and PBIS

Valparaiso Community Schools: Life Skills and PBIS Be respectful and be nice. Be responsible that’s the advice. Be safe all day long. Don’t make choices that are wrong. At Central Elementary in Valparaiso, we end each assembly by singing our school song. We, along with all Valparaiso Community...

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Valparaiso Community Schools: Benefits of STEM at Home and School

Valparaiso Community Schools: Benefits of STEM at Home and School During the first days of school, elementary school students all across Valparaiso were being asked, “What does STEM stand for?” Some knew right away, while others had no idea. Once every student learned that STEM stood for Science Technology...

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Memorial Elementary and Benjamin Franklin Middle School Study the American Revolution

Memorial Elementary and Benjamin Franklin Middle School Study the American Revolution If you are reading this, you probably wanted to learn about how the students in Mrs. Rainey’s fifth grade class worked with one of Mrs. Gioia’s eighth grade classes to create fantastic social studies collaboration projects. I, myself, being a 5th...

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Valparaiso Community Schools Culture and Student Services Team: Partnering with the Valpo Village

Valparaiso Community Schools Culture and Student Services Team:  Partnering with the Valpo Village Building a stronger village to support Valparaiso students has taken precedence this year for the newly formed Valparaiso Community Schools Culture and Student Services Team (CSST), composed of Director Cicely Powell, Home-School Advisor Michelle...

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VCS LEAD Mentors: Building Bridges Across Our Community and Beyond

VCS LEAD Mentors: Building Bridges Across Our Community and Beyond From the preschool to the boardroom, hundreds of teen mentors are LEADing the way in Valpo Schools! Mentoring, in multiple forms, provides the foundation for our entire VCS LEAD System. Our district-wide pro-social student empowerment framework...

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Art, Theatre, Writing and Friendship Connect in 2 Valpo Art Rooms

Art, Theatre, Writing and Friendship Connect in 2 Valpo Art Rooms For the last month, 2nd Graders at Memorial and Parkview Elementary schools have been hard at work on an interdisciplinary project in art class that was based on the book, Rainbow Fish. Students created larger than life 3D watercolor Fish which were...

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Memorial Elementary is on a Kindness Crusade in 2016

Memorial Elementary is on a Kindness Crusade in 2016 Every morning two smiling faces await students as they enter the front doors of Memorial Elementary School in Valparaiso. Another two smiling faces offer a compliment, a helping hand, or a joke outside the library. Still other students rush off to...

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Valparaiso Community Schools 2016 Kindergarten Roundup

Valparaiso Community Schools 2016 Kindergarten Roundup Each elementary will offer two identical meetings for roundup. Please choose the one that best fits your schedule. Children, who are entering kindergarten in the fall of 2015, and their parents, must make arrangements to attend. During the meeting,...

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Valparaiso Community Schools Announces Spring into the Arts Festival 2016

Valparaiso Community Schools Announces Spring into the Arts Festival 2016 Valparaiso Community Schools is announcing an exciting Arts Festival entitled: Spring into the Arts. Spring into the Arts is a new, month-long festival for the ENTIRE community, brought to you by Valparaiso Community Schools. It is a concept...

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