Welcome Military Families!
The Sparta Area School District is a rural school district and is also proud to be the home of Fort McCoy, the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The Sparta Area School Districts has the high honor of doing everything we can for our military children and families as well as ensuring their academic, emotional, and social success. We do this not only to support their educational and co-curricular growth in their current school year, but to help build their resilience knowing we are not the only school district in their educational path.
To learn more about the Sparta Area School District, please reach out to:
Rebecca L. Walley
CYS Outreach Services Director/School Liaison Officer
Child & Youth Services
CYS Building 1765
South "F" Street
USAG Fort McCoy, WI
Desk: 502-898-6814
Over the last 13 years, the Sparta Area School District (SASD) has made great efforts to improve opportunities and outcomes for students, in part because of three DoDEA grants (Project Bold Shift, Project Preparation, and currently through Project Focus Forward.
All of these grants, with funds provided by the Department of Defense Education Activities, have allowed us to increase access for military-connected students and their peers to STEM-focused project-based learning (PBL) and social-emotional learning (SEL).
Improving access to these evidence-based strategies, along with building the capacity of staff to effectively implement new instructional techniques that support them, is creating students with new pathways to college and career readiness. We are starting year three of Focus Forward, a five-year grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) to provide a systems-level solution for addressing social and emotional learning as well as math and science achievement gaps involving military-affiliated students (who account for over 20% of the district’s student population).
Military students face challenges associated with being a member of a military family for which the grant can assist the SASD district in addressing through Focus Forward strategies and resources. The SASD will use internal and external personnel and resources to focus on improvement in the areas of social emotional learning and math and science.
For more information on Focus Forward and our efforts contact Tom Chambers, Grant Program Manager. tchambers@spartan.org
Veterans Day
Veterans Day 2024 is on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.
As a federal holiday, Veterans Day is typically observed on Nov. 11 every year. However, if it occurs on a Sunday then the federal government designates the following Monday as the Federal holiday. If Nov. 11 falls on a Saturday like it does this year, then the government may designate either Saturday or Friday. The 2024 federal observation date is Monday, Nov. 11, 2023. Continue reading.
Military Family Appreciation Month
Military Family Appreciation Month was established in 1993 by the Armed Services YMCA, with the U.S. Government recognizing the occasion every year since. Each year the President signs a proclamation declaring November Military Family Month.
PurpleUp Celebrations
Herrman Elementary recongizes Military children. Click the link below to see the video:
Tutor.com
What is Tutor.com for U.S. Military Families?
Tutor.com for U.S. Military Families (Tutor.com/military), funded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is a program that allows eligible students in grades kindergarten through college to connect to a live tutor online at any time, 24/7, for one-to-one help with homework, studying, test prep and more, at no cost.
Tutor.com has more than 3,000 background-checked tutors that provide expert, on-demand academic support. Eligible students worldwide can access the online service from any internet-enabled device for real-time help in more than 150 subjects, standardized test prep (ACT/SAT), and more. Students and tutors work one-to-one in a secure online classroom through voice or chat, and by using features like an interactive whiteboard, graphing calculator, file sharing, text editor, and more. In addition to receiving real-time tutoring and homework help on demand, students can also choose to schedule future online tutoring sessions and submit papers for offline tutor review. Feedback on papers, essays, and other writing projects that a student submits for tutor review will be available in “My Sessions” in a student’s Tutor.com account within 12 hours.
Tutor.com/military academic support is available to all eligible students, regardless of which school they’re attending or the curriculum they are following. Our tutors do not “teach” topics or lessons, but rather help students better understand how to answer the questions students bring to their tutoring sessions.
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