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Albrecht Elementary develops Problem Solving Team Albrecht Elementary School has developed a new team this year called the Problem Solving Team. The team was developed to work with teaching staff members who may need additional ideas regarding how to meet the academic and/or social emotional needs of their students. Kate Hipenbecker, our elementary school counselor; DeAnne Larson, our District’s School Psychologist; Anisti Haffele, our Title 1 Math Teacher; and Nikki Krumwiede, our Title 1 Reading Teacher meet every Tuesday morning with staff members in 30 minute increments and a
rotating substitute teacher covers the teacher’s classroom during their meeting time. The team will work with individual teachers to come up ideas to try and a timeline to reconvene and discuss the progress of the student during that intervention period. This new team has made a tremendous difference in how we create and monitor intervention plans for individual students. They are a great group of teachers and a wonderful resource to have in our elementary school. We are lucky to have them at Albrecht!
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Albrecht Elementary School has developed the Problem Solving Team to work with teaching staff members who may need additional ideas regarding how to meet the academic and/or social emotional needs of their students. The team members are: elementary school counselor Kate Hipenbecker; District’s School Psychologist DeAnne Larson; Title 1 Math Teacher Anisti Haffele; and Title 1 Reading Teacher Nikki Krumwiede.
‘Right to Harm’ film plays to large crowd
About 130 Farmers Union members and local residents packed Brix Cider in Mount Horeb for a Feb. 16 viewing of the documentary “Right to Harm”. The event was hosted by the South Central and Iowa-Grant chapters of Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU). The documentary, which is being shown by several WFU chapters in the coming months, shows the impact of factory farming on communities throughout the United States. Right to Harm exposes the devastating public health impact that factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens across the country. Filmed across the U.S., the documentary chronicles issues arising around industrial animal agriculture. The film features WFU members Mary Dougherty and Lynn Utesch, who share their experiences as champions of conservation and family farms. Also featured is economist John Ikerd, who abandoned industry beliefs after a 14-year career as a livestock marketing specialist. After the farm crisis of the 1980s he realized, “The farmers who were in the biggest trouble, were the ones doing the things we so-called experts were telling them to do.” “ ‘Right to Harm’ is both a moving and motivating film that shows the
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power struggle between rural residents and money, the cost of environmental racism, and the importance of our water and land,” said WFU Membership & Education Organizer Kirsten Slaughter. “A lot of the film revolves around power. Often power lies in the hands of the few who are causing the harm, but that can change when individuals in rural communities are able to come together to protect their communities. “Clearly this is an issue that resonates with the community here in Southern WI,” says Matt Sheaffer from the South Central chapter of the WFU. “A Dodgeville dairy farmer mentioned to me that he had been nervous about the tone of the movie but after seeing it was reassured that the real threat to rural communities and farms like his lies in the proliferation of large-scale industrial operations.” At the 2020 WFU State Convention in Rothschild, members of the grassroots family farm organization set Oversight of Large Livestock Facilities and Concentration in the Agriculture Industry as special orders of business. “State standards under ATCP 51 regarding acceptance, regulation, and enforcement of CAFOs have failed to enable towns and counties to protect
their people, land, water, and health,” said WFU Executive Director Julie Keown-Bomar. “Our members have shown a clear desire to educate other farmers and citizens around this issue and to restore local control to communities. We recognize that there are CAFOs that are family-scale farms, and they are not a target of this film. Instead it looks at the extremely large, industrial scale model that is sweeping the nation and threatening our natural resources, as well as the livelihood of the family farm.” “Right to Harm” is an enlightening exploration that questions whether citizens are entitled to clean air and water, while examining the political issues that stand in the way of nationwide reform. Additional viewings will be posted soon at www.wisconsinfarmersunion.com/ events. The South Central and Iowa-Grant chapters are part of Wisconsin Farmers Union, a member-driven organization committed to enhancing the quality of life for family farmers, rural communities, and all people through educational COURTESY PHOTO Brodhead Independent-Register opportunities, cooperative endeavors, and civic engagement. For more information visit www.wisconsinfarmersunion.com. To kick off FFA week, Brodhead students enjoy the petting zoo!
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