America SCORES Milwaukee

America SCORES Milwaukee prides itself in providing our community’s urban youth with the opportunity to be active and engaged in structured after-school activities. Students in our after-school enrichment program participate in America SCORES Milwaukee programming.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee

With safe places to learn and play, positive role models, and educational programming, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee has helped local kids and teens thrive since 1887, and provides after-school enrichment at Lincoln Avenue School in partnership with the school and Milwaukee Recreation. The Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Lincoln Avenue School provides K4 through fifth-grade students with a healthy snack or light dinner and supervised, structured academic enrichment opportunities that reinforce what students learn during the school day.

Scouting America

Scouting America is chartered by Congress to serve our nation’s youth by instilling the values of the Scout Oath and Law. Scouting America aims to prepare young people for lives of impact and purpose. Students in our after-school enrichment program can participate in Scouting America programming.

Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin

Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin advocates for families and actively works to create programs to build healthier communities. As Wisconsin’s voice for children’s health, their work is guided by national and statewide priorities defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Their work is carried out in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Alliance Advisory Board. Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin administers the Love My Air Wisconsin environmental health program. Lincoln Avenue School is honored to participate in this pilot program.

Girl Scouts of the USA

Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges. Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors, and millions of alums, Girl Scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them. Girl Scouts of the USA regional partner, Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast, brings session-based after-school programming to Lincoln Avenue School.

Growing Minds

Growing Minds makes well-being, mental health, and mindfulness concepts relatable and actionable. By focusing on the abilities to pause and ground oneself in the moment, one can create space to savor the good, respond thoughtfully to the challenging, and feel more nourished and content throughout each day. Students in our after-school enrichment program learn to prioritize their social and emotional health using the Growing Minds curriculum.

Junior Achievement USA

Junior Achievement USA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Junior Achievement’s programs in the core content areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy ignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century.

Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership

Lincoln Avenue School is proud to be a member of the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership (MCSP). Through MCSP, our students, families, teachers, staff, neighbors, and partners come together to form a strategy that best meets the needs of our students.

The MCSP is made up of three key partners with the core values of shared leadership, equity, and cultural relevance:

• Milwaukee Public Schools
• Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association
• United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

Members of the MTEA are the educators who work directly with the students who attend Milwaukee’s public schools. Collectively they advocate for quality public education in Milwaukee. As advocates for educators, they are advocates for all children. They are here to lead the dialogue, to challenge, to support and work for change — ensuring a better future for members and the students and families we serve. The MTEA is a lead partner of the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership.

Reflo

Annually, Reflo works with partners including Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the City of Milwaukee, the Fund for Lake Michigan, Community Design Solutions, and others to support Milwaukee-area schools in an intensive, collaborative process to design and then redevelop greener, healthier schoolyards. Construction begins on Lincoln Avenue School’s redeveloped schoolyard in summer 2024.

Each redevelopment project is tailored to the specific needs and enthusiasm of the school’s community but often involves replacing seas of asphalt with green infrastructure including bioswales, rain gardens, and trees as well as outdoor classrooms, improved recreational facilities and arts opportunities. Designs go beyond removing pavement to maximize benefits for communities, the environment, and local economy.

School Community Partnership for Mental Health

Since 2009, the School Community Partnership for Mental Health (SCPMH) has provided intensive, on-site mental wellness programs and mental health services to students and families in Milwaukee Public Schools. The partnership began in just four schools and has expanded to nearly 40 schools, including Lincoln Avenue School.

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers is Lincoln Avenue School’s partner organization through the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership. Sixteenth Street therapists spend two days per week at Lincoln Avenue School, working with teachers, the school social worker, psychologist, counselor, and parent coordinator, to get to know students and families. As trusted members of our school community, therapists bring age appropriate, evidence-based wellness workshops and therapies to students and families.

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

An independently-governed 501(c)3 nonprofit organization connected to a network of more than 1,400 local United Ways through United Way Worldwide, the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County focuses its work on local solutions for local problems. The United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County is a lead partner of the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership.

University of Wisconsin-Madison – Division of Extension

Extension’s mission is to connect people with the University of Wisconsin, whose educators teach, learn, lead and serve, transforming lives and communities. Health and Well-Being at Extension brings the FoodWIse program to Lincoln Avenue School.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provides an affordable, world-class education to 23,000 students from 86 countries. As one of the nation’s top research universities, UWM partners with leading companies in Wisconsin and beyond to advance knowledge, bring new discoveries to market and prepare students for work in a global economy. Lincoln Avenue School is one of two MPS sites participating in the PIECE Project, an innovative and inclusive early childhood educator development program based at the UW-Milwaukee School of Education.

Urban Ecology Center

The Neighborhood Environmental Education Project (NEEP) engages classes through field trips to local green spaces that enrich the classroom curriculum. Urban Ecology Center educators engage students through hands-on activities, indoors and outdoors. Students may learn about local habitats, identifying plants, finding signs of animal life, or building forts with classmates! Rain or shine, snow or wind, every trip has a portion outdoors and is engaging for all students and parent chaperones. Urban Ecology Center has outerwear available to borrow so all participants may explore in any weather. There are three Urban Ecology Center locations; most schools partner with one less than two miles from their school. Lincoln Avenue students visit the Urban Ecology Center for field experiences.

UW Credit Union

UW Credit Union is a growing, federally insured financial institution and a leading provider of a full range of financial services to University of Wisconsin communities. With $5 billion in assets, UW Credit Union is ranked nationally among the leading credit unions. Founded more than 90 years ago by members of the University of Wisconsin faculty and staff, UW Credit Union continues to operate as a not-for-profit, member-owned financial cooperative. UW Credit Union provides free financial literacy classes to parents and caregivers at Lincoln Avenue School.

Wisconsin Bike Fed

The Bike Fed helps lead and coordinate Safe Routes to School efforts in direct partnership with the MPS Physical Education Department. This is a federally funded program to increase the number and safety of kids walking and biking to school through “the six E’s” of traffic safety: education, engineering, encouragement, engagement, evaluation, and equity. Through the Bike Fed’s direct instruction, over 25,000 MPS scholars have participated in Walking Wisdom or Bicycle Driver’s Ed curricula since 2005. These curricula form the building blocks of other Bike Fed programs that aim to improve student mobility, such as Walk & Bike to School Day events, Walking Clubs, Bike Camps, and traffic calming efforts with the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works. Lincoln Avenue School students and families are participating in bicyclist and pedestrian-safety programs designed to make our neighborhood safer for all.