Stories from the Driftless | March 24, 2021
Taliesin Preservation: Providing Connection with the Driftless – PRTP13If you live in the Driftless, you’ve certainly heard of Frank Lloyd Wright and maybe even, prairie style architecture. You can see evidence of his work throughout southern Wisconsin in […]
Stories from the Driftless | March 7, 2021
Tower Rock Elementary: An Exemplary School for Place-Based Education — PRTP12Note: Most of the photos in this post capture events prior to March 2020. Today I’m speaking with Terri Anderson, 1st grade teacher at Tower Rock elementary school in the […]
Stories from the Driftless | February 11, 2021
Agriculture Education Moves Forward in Maquoketa, IowaToday you’re meeting a former student of mine, Cassie Miller, and her colleague Matt Lansing from Maquoketa high school. Initially, I asked for this interview because I read a recent […]
Stories from the Driftless | January 17, 2021
Transition Plus & Culver’s = an Impactful Partnership – PRTP10Today you’re meeting three wonderful people who have developed opportunities for students in the Baraboo school district for over the 15 years as part of a program called Transition Plus. […]
Stories from the Driftless | January 3, 2021
Creating Opportunity and Sharing Joy through Music in Viroqua, Wisconsin — PRTP9This episode of the Proud Rural Teacher Podcast is part of the Stories from the Driftless Series, a series dedicated to telling the digital stories of the teachers in the […]
Stories from the Driftless | October 23, 2020
The Proud Rural Teacher Podcast Receives a Grant from the Rural Schools Collaborative – PRTP8Grant will help share Driftless area teachers’ stories nationwide PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Platteville School of Education recently received a grant from the Rural Schools Collaborative (RSC), a national nonprofit committed to […]
Stories from the Driftless | May 4, 2020
Capture Those Farming Stories – PRTP7Staying current with last week’s theme of digital storytelling, I wanted to share with you another example of the importance of recording our history. As part of a class assignment, […]
Stories from the Driftless | April 25, 2020
Stories from the One Room Schoolhouse Days – PRTP6For the first half of the 20th century, if you were a kid in Southwest Wisconsin, you attended a one-room school. K-8, one room, one teacher. You walked miles to […]
Stories from the Driftless | April 17, 2020
“Funding Opportunities Through the Rural Schools Collaborative — PRTP5In this episode you’ll meet Gary Funk, Director of the Rural School Collaborative. The RSC’s mission is “to build sustainable rural communities through a keen focus on place, teachers, and […]
Stories from the Driftless | April 5, 2020
An Interview with Laurie Heimsoth: 5th Grade Teacher from Mineral Point Elementary — PRTP4Today’s podcast episode features Laurie Heimsoth, a 5th grader teacher at Mineral Point Elementary in Southwest Wisconsin. Laurie, like many teachers, has moved her class to remote learning at home. […]