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    What happens when you assume?
    Emily Berry
    • Dec 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    What happens when you assume?

    Whether you support a potential $65 million bond issue to pay for facilities improvements in our school district or not, I hope you will...
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    "Please don't say 'this is a journey'"
    Emily Berry
    • Nov 14, 2018
    • 3 min

    "Please don't say 'this is a journey'"

    Three of our five school board members are professors, so if there is one way to reach them, it is with an academic study of something....
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    School leaders hear what they want to hear: a "yes."
    Emily Berry
    • Nov 13, 2018
    • 6 min

    School leaders hear what they want to hear: a "yes."

    Tonight's school board meeting will include a review of survey responses from the community gauging our tolerance for borrowing and...
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    Unequal access to power
    Emily Berry
    • Oct 19, 2018
    • 5 min

    Unequal access to power

    There's a phrase that people use now, sometimes jokingly: "all the feels," that describes Shorewood right now. All of us watching or...
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    Waiting for leadership
    Emily Berry
    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 4 min

    Waiting for leadership

    The last few days of "To Kill a Mockingbird" controversy in Shorewood have swirled to the surface a lot of resentments, assumptions,...
    239 views0 comments
    We failed. Let's get out of the way.
    Emily Berry
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    We failed. Let's get out of the way.

    I'm lucky, I guess, to have a blank page here to draft my thoughts about the district cancelling its production of "To Kill a...
    515 views0 comments
    How do we define good character and citizenship? Should schools even try?
    Emily Berry
    • Sep 12, 2018
    • 4 min

    How do we define good character and citizenship? Should schools even try?

    I mentioned in my preview of this week's school board meeting that our board was taking up some of the most substantive questions and...
    48 views0 comments
    Take your pick of topics
    Emily Berry
    • Sep 10, 2018
    • 5 min

    Take your pick of topics

    Every parent I know has a certain thing about their kid's school that they are passionate about. One dad may not think school lunches are...
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    Facilities plans are crystallizing - are you paying attention?
    Emily Berry
    • Sep 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    Facilities plans are crystallizing - are you paying attention?

    There were a good two dozen people in attendance at Tuesday's annual meeting, present to listen to the highlights of the school...
    83 views0 comments
    Cheers to showing up
    Emily Berry
    • Aug 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    Cheers to showing up

    There were a good two dozen people in attendance at Tuesday's annual meeting, present to listen to the highlights of the school...
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    Your meeting
    Emily Berry
    • Aug 24, 2018
    • 1 min

    Your meeting

    Once a year, the school district is required to call a meeting for village residents to consider and (usually) approve a tax levy to...
    82 views0 comments
    Walls have a way of getting political.
    Emily Berry
    • Jul 11, 2018
    • 8 min

    Walls have a way of getting political.

    UPDATE/POSTSCRIPT: The special Friday the 13th meeting resulted in a reversal - the wall has indeed been knocked down. Lots of wasted...
    492 views0 comments
    Spending plans for 2018-2019
    Emily Berry
    • Jun 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Spending plans for 2018-2019

    Tuesday's regular meeting was much shorter than usual and was missing two board members, but the remaining three voted on significant...
    88 views1 comment
    No summer break - school district work is in full swing
    Emily Berry
    • Jun 26, 2018
    • 3 min

    No summer break - school district work is in full swing

    This week's school board meeting should be a revealing and busy one, as the board takes up topics that should be of keen interest to...
    93 views0 comments
    Emily Berry
    • Jun 12, 2018
    • 6 min

    Laying the groundwork for a big pile of debt

    I'll start this post with a positive: a room full of people showed up last week to hear about the district's facilities plan and the role...
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    If a meeting happens and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
    Emily Berry
    • May 23, 2018
    • 9 min

    If a meeting happens and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

    If you knew that the school district had a dozen work groups meeting regularly to discuss specific issues and advise school district...
    113 views0 comments
    A Small Town Hall
    Emily Berry
    • May 10, 2018
    • 4 min

    A Small Town Hall

    The school board hosted their final linkage of the year Tuesday night, welcoming anyone and everyone for a Town Hall immediately before...
    102 views0 comments
    Emily Berry
    • May 7, 2018
    • 9 min

    Full email thread: our Superintendent on Student Transfers

    Readers, our district superintendent Bryan Davis emailed me earlier today taking issue with the way I framed my recent post on transfers...
    398 views0 comments
    Are students of color and their families giving up on Shorewood School District?
    Emily Berry
    • May 3, 2018
    • 5 min

    Are students of color and their families giving up on Shorewood School District?

    A few months ago, I started hearing talk of several African-American students leaving our high school and transferring to other nearby...
    571 views1 comment
    Maintenance and Operations: How Shorewood Measures Up
    Emily Berry
    • Mar 13, 2018
    • 5 min

    Maintenance and Operations: How Shorewood Measures Up

    [Important edits made to this post Tuesday, March 13 regarding the data cited here] Spend a lot of time in any of our schools, and...
    227 views0 comments
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