Crusader Connection Winter 2020

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CRUSADER CONNECTION edgewoodhs.org

WINTER 2020

E NHAN CIN G the EDGEWOOD EXPERIENCE: B UIL DING STRUCTURES and RELATIONSHIPS

Over the past 10 years, Edgewood has

worked to enhance the classroom learning, relationship experience, and facilities to a level that students and families deserve. The school has made significant investments in facilities additions and renovations to resources for student mental and physical wellbeing, dining, performing arts, casual study, and all encounters with students and visitors to administrative offices. Since Spring 2018, the school has built the McKinley Performing Arts Center for music concerts, theatre productions, special events and guest speakers. An enhancement of the safety and security for the facility was made possible through improved public announcement system and radio communication, additional supervisory cameras, and new security locks. The Student Services area was expanded to increase college and career counseling, provide a wellness room, and add a monitored space with comfortable furniture for casual study. The kitchen has been relocated and now offers an

At Edgewood, the goals and focus on improvement go much further than bricks and mortar, however. Edgewood High School faculty and staff have committed to an intensive study of one Sinsinawa Dominican value each year in order to enact that value in all our work. This year the school’s focus is on Truth, as shaped by the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa.

increased number of healthy menu items. A new entrance for visitors to the building now leads to a reception area off of which all administrative offices have been consolidated into a single large suite, making access to the school both more secure and more convenient for guests. At Edgewood, the goals and focus on improvement go much further than bricks and mortar, however. Edgewood High School faculty and staff have committed to an intensive study of one Sinsinawa

EHS welcomes Sue Richards as our new school nurse

By President Michael Elliott and Principal Beth Steffen, Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart

Dominican value each year in order to enact that value in all our work. This year the school’s focus is on Truth, as shaped by the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa. Principal Beth Steffen spoke before the faculty and staff at the beginning of the school year, quoting from the “Seeking Truth” brochure prepared by Sr. Barbara Dannhausen, OP: “Education for the present generation depends on crossing cultural, religious and intellectual borders, and discovering in the process that truth is never complete. continued on page 2

Mike Elliott ‘77 President

Beth Steffen Principal

G O O D M A N F I E L D UPDATE

“I love being partCofRthis W I N T ECouncil R 2 0 2 0voted 7, the Madison Common Ucommunity S A D EweRcallC O N NOnETuesday, C T I Jan. ON Edgewood!” says Sue. “School nursing is a in favor of repealing Edgewood’s master plan. We feel it collaborative and personal effort. I have the joy of was the right decision because we were never asking for meeting students one-on-one as they arrive in my special treatment, we were only asking for equal treatment. office with an array of health concerns. Sue refers From the beginning we followed the process that the city to herself as an EHS “parent veteran,” having had asked us to follow, even when that process changed. In the three boys on the campus from kindergarten through 12th grade. She Dominican tradition of study, reflect, act, we studied every has practiced nursing in a number of settings for more than 30 years. concern and provided honest information and solutions that Sue received a BSN from the University of Michigan, a certificate in met or exceeded city standards and requirements. Edgewood Geriatric Mental Health Nursing from the University of Wisconsin and remains committed to being the good neighbor it has been recently completed a two-year course in Spiritual Guidance. for the past 130 years.


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