Welcome Back MDIH Teachers & Staff

First day of school excitement filled the Maple Dale cafeteria for the MDIH PTO Welcome Back Breakfast. But it was the teachers excited chatter that filled the room. Kids go back Tuesday.

School-Pak Offers One-Stop Shopping for Fox Point, Bayside School Supplies

A Milwaukee company is ready to pick and pack all your fall classroom needs and put them on your doorstep.

Maybe you like shopping for school supplies. Perhaps hauling the kids to the store, or to several stores, and traipsing up and down aisles looking for the right binders and folders, the markers and pens, the tape and glue sticks book covers while check off your list, trips your trigger. If not, there's now a way to do it from home for any many public elementary school, and some private ones, with a few clicks. Then you just wait for it all to be packed and shipped to your door.  As of the coming school year, Bayside Middle School, St. Eugene Catholic School and Stormonth Elementary have their school shopping lists available on School-Pak, a website that promises to deliver all your needed school supplies right to your doorstep.  Terri …

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Fundraising Fiesta: Fabulous Fun at the MDIH Bash

Hundreds gathered for the No. 1 fundraiser for the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District. Complete with margaritas, a live DJ and both a silent and live auction, the entire room was nothing but smiles.

Video: District Digs Dragon Dash

Brewers racing sausages stopped by, cheering on the little ones during the dash.

Hundreds turned out for the first ever Dragon Dash on Sunday amid the colorful changing leaves and comfortable temperatures at Indian Hill School. The 5K run/walk helps fund field trips, outdoor education and extracurricular activities for students at Maple Dale-Indian Hill.  A DJ, bounce houses, Sapphire the dragon and even the Brewers racing sausages stopped by to hang out and cheer on the racers. Food and drinks were offered after the race, donated by Noodles & Company, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and Bruegger’s Bagels.

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The Editor's Notebook

Week Ahead: School Committee Meetings, Tennis Tussles and More

A roundup of places to be and people to meet in Fox Point and Bayside.

Who said nothing ever happens in Fox Point or Bayside — Patch certainly doesn't think so! Check out all the places to be, things to do and people to see as we look at the week ahead. Fox Point-Bayside Budget Hearing and Annual Meeting The Fox Point-Bayside School District will hold their annual meeting to review the proposed 2011-12 budget Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Stormonth Elementary cafeteria. After a presentation from Director of Business Services Amy Kohl and District Administrator Rachel Boechler, there will be a vote to set the district budget and levy. Nicolet Budget and Finance Meeting Monday The Budget and Finance committee will meet Monday at 4:45 p.m. in room F124 at Nicolet to take a look at bidding out health insurance for …

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Feliz Cinco de Mayo: Vieau School Students Put on a Show at Maple Dale

Not only students, but teachers even got up to shake their groove thing.

Students from Vieau School, a bilingual school on the south side of Milwaukee, performed Hispanic dances at Maple Dale Middle School Thursday in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. Everyone danced to music with heritage from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Students in first through eighth grades performed and then taught teachers and students at the end of the performance how to complete some of the dance moves. "It's just catching, and you saw it today when the children exploded. That's the enthusiasm that you pass onto your children," said Melissa Lloyd, Maple Dale-Indian Hill PTO member after the performance.

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: A Big 'Thank You' After Band Together a Big Success

School districts want to thank community for their support of the inaugural event.

The
 Nicolet
 Unified
 School
 District 
Foundations,
 comprised 
of
 the 
educational
 foundations
 from
 the
 School
 Districts
 of
 Fox
 Point‐Bayside,
 Glendale‐River
 Hills,
 Maple
 Dale‐Indian
 Hill
 and
 Nicolet,
 would
 like
 to
 take
 this
 opportunity
 to
 thank
 the
 community
 for
 its
 support
 of
 the
 inaugural
 Band
 Together event. Money
 raised
 at
 the
 event
 will
 benefit
 each
 of
 the
 four
 school
 districts
 and
 help
 to
 maintain
 the
 outstanding
 education,
 from
 kindergarten
 through
 high
 school,
which 
is 
the
 hallmark
 of 
our
 communities. In
 particular,
 we
 would
 like
 to
 acknowledge
 the
 following
 businesses
 and
 individuals
 who
 banded
 together
 to 
make 
this 
such 
a 
successful
 event: In…

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Darren Fisher

9:02 am on Thursday, April 21, 2011

I think the most amazing part was the four foundations "banding together". We need to do more community related events to bring unity between the districts. I'm looking forward to future events. -Darren   more ›

Teachers Dance the Classics for School Pride

From "Terminator" to "Back to the Future," teachers at Maple Dale-Indian Hill performed scenes from popular movies.

Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District staff contributed to the 10th annual Red Carpet Bash with a choreographed video showcasing their school pride. "Hooray for our great schools," was the refrain, putting emphasis on how much the teachers and staff care. Twirling yard sticks, wiggling books and some organized dance steps pulled it all together. They performed scenes from several movies, including "The Wizard of Oz," "Back to the Future," "The Terminator" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

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Maple Dale-Indian Hill Fundraiser Takes in Record Contributions

Foundation's 10th annual Red Carpet Bash once again raises thousands to help out teachers.

There was a record turnout at the 10th annual Maple Dale-Indian Hill Educational Foundation's 10th annual Red Carpet Bash Saturday at the Four Points by Sheraton in Brown Deer. Hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction, dinner, live auction and dueling pianos were all part of the night's activities, which raised funds to help teachers buy supplies for the classroom. A 10-foot tall poster that featured the names of each of the district's 42 teachers was another item up for auction. Mark Shapiro, a parent and emcee for the evening, reminded the audience teachers often spend a few hundred dollars within a year on supplies for the classroom and never see a penny back. Bids of $500 started the auction, and when they were brought down to $200 and $100, …

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Maple Dale-Indian Hill Board Member to Run Again

Rob Ricigliano writes about why he wants to return to School Board.

Editor's Note: This letter was written by Robert Ricigliano. For the last six years I have served on the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School Board.  During that time we have achieved a lot, including a series of successful negotiations with our teachers’ union after years of no-agreement, passage of two referendums, and reversal of years of declining enrollment.  In January, I filed my papers of “non-candidacy,” feeling that I would retire from the School Board.  I am writing now to reverse that decision and to announce that I wish to run for another term on the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School Board as a write-in candidate.  Recent events in the state and their impact on schools across Wisconsin compel me to continue to serve on the School Board…

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