Academics at Wilson School

Wolfpack is a school-wide collaborative effort to deliver individualized targeted instruction, intervention, extension and appropriate support for the benefit of all students. ALL students at Wilson receive 30 minutes of Wolfpack instruction each day. During Wolfpack students set personalized goals to meet and exceed proficiency in their grade level essential standards.

Objectives

1. To increase student achievement through the personalization and individualization of educational programming.

2. Meet students at their instructional level utilizing a variety of resources to ensure they obtain proficiency in identified essential learning targets.

3. Strategic and intentional grouping of students to maximize staffing and increase the collaborative environment for staff and students.

To ensure students acquire sufficient English proficiency and to enable them to function successfully in the classroom and society the EL curriculum is content-based and reflect mainstreamed curriculum whenever possible, and students are placed at age-appropriate grade levels regardless of English language proficiency.

Music is a vital part of our daily lives and human experience.
Music stimulates and activates the mind, body, and soul.
In the Wilson Music room, we strive to educate the whole child, not simply a subject.

Beginning band and orchestra are open to all 5th grade students. We offer instruction on many different band and string instruments.

Through the Junior Achievement program, our students receive knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and business from volunteers in the local business community.

PBIS is an acronym for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. The goal of PBIS is to promote and teach appropriate pro-social skills and behaviors to maximize academic success for all students.

Each class sees the school counselor for Guidance Class for 30 minutes every other week. Lessons are based on the Academic, Personal/Social, and Career Development Domains of the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for School Counseling.

All students should be provided with an education in the development of cognitive skills, affective skills, self-awareness, self-esteem, physical well being, and socially acceptable decision making strategies.

Youth-Tutoring-Youth is a program that provides high school students with an opportunity to give direct tutoring assistance to elementary classrooms under the guidance of a supervising and coordinating teacher.