Achievement Gap Reduction (AGR)

The AGR program provides intensive academic and instructional support to Wisconsin schools working to close the achievement gap between kindergarten through third-grade students from low-income backgrounds and students in the same grade and subject statewide. Milwaukee Public Schools with AGR funding implement key strategies in their kindergarten through third-grade classrooms:

• Class sizes of 18:1 or 30:2
• One−to−one tutoring provided by a licensed teacher
• Instructional coaching for teachers provided by a licensed teacher

Junior Achievement

We have a strong partnership with the Junior Achievement of Wisconsin program, which inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy. Junior Achievement of Wisconsin provides activities, guides, thought leadership and other resources to support age-appropriate learning about leadership, jobs, money and more. Lessons are organized according to the Milwaukee Public Schools Social Studies curriculum and are implemented in K5 classrooms, continuing through eighth grade.

Marquette University Peace Works

Marquette University Peace Works is a nonviolence, peace education program that utilizes a social-emotional curriculum, restorative practices and peer mediation to teach youth communication skills, active listening skills, critical observation skills, mediation techniques, anger management skills, self-reflection, and problem-solving through practical skill building exercises, group interaction, role play, games, reading, writing, art and reflection. University students train Mitchell School fourth through eighth graders to become peer mediators in their school.

Milwaukee Art Museum Junior Docent School Program

The Milwaukee Art Museum Junior Docent School Program invites students in grades three through five to explore the visual arts during 10 visits to the Milwaukee Art Museum where they learn vocabulary, history and develop cultural and historical awareness of different arts styles and disciplines. Students complete their personalized, three-year course of study by selecting, researching, and presenting on a favorite item from the museum’s collection and earning “Junior Docent” status.

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 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.

Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Wisconsin Conservatory of Music inspires, energizes, and generates lifelong learners through its faculty artist and early childhood community partnership programs. Conservatory performer-educators bring weekly curriculum-based music instruction to Mitchell School, completing our exciting and engaging art, music, and physical education classes for K4 through eighth-grade students.