Join Us for an Open House! Come visit our beautiful Waukesha location on September 23rd for a tour of our new learning space and score a Literacy Services goodie bag! Join our program leaders Kelly Fox and Heidi Friedrichs at our 831 N. Grand Ave. Learning Center to see how staff, volunteers, and students are returning […]
COVID Policy Update March 31, 2022 LSW continues to prioritize the safety of our staff, volunteers, and students. In January, LSW postponed in-person classes in response to the Omicron variant. Since then, in-person classes have resumed as usual and LSW has maintained a mask requirement while onsite at all locations, along with a health check […]
Austin Greenburg Volunteer of the Month – April In the past year, LSW staff and volunteers have faced some interesting challenges as we navigated the world of virtual education. Volunteer, Austin Greenburg, is certainly no stranger to the varying degrees of energy, effort, and quick creative thinking required to deliver classes online. Austin began volunteering […]
Mary Hempel LSW expected that opening a new location in a new county would be a big endeavor. The pandemic gave our reasonable expectations a good thrashing and exponentially multiplied our challenges. As we struggled to build programming for the new Waukesha location, one volunteer became an integral part of our team. We are delighted […]
Gary Rosenberg LSW ELL Tutor – March 2020 to present Student – Mayela B., Waukesha (formerly of Venezuela) More than ever before, LSW volunteers have stepped up to the challenge of helping students continue their learning in a world turned upside down by COVID-19. So this month, we would like to specially thank a tutor […]
Literacy Services of Wisconsin and WRTP/BIG STEP’s Multi-Craft Core Curriculum High School Equivalency Diploma Recognized Nationally as an Innovative Practice in Adult Education Multi-Craft Core Curriculum High School Equivalency Diploma to Join Online Showcase of Innovative Practices on September 22 during National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week [Milwaukee, WI, September 21, 2020] […]
We are thrilled to announce Rozanne Screven as September volunteer of the month! Rozanne is a longtime educator and licensed reading teacher who has professionally taught first grade and adults at Waukesha Technical College. She began volunteering with Literacy Services in 2006 when WCTC required staff to do community service work, however Rozanne had long […]
Local Literacy Leaders Literacy Services of Wisconsin is hosting a panel with transformational local literacy leaders Cetonia Weston-Roy and Barbara Cerda. This panel features incredible Milwaukee-area women who are reshaping our city through literacy. Meet the Leaders
Student Voices: Edwin Edwin Gonzalez is from Panama City, Panama. Edwin has been a student at LSW since November of 2019. Edwin has incredible talent and hopes to pursue his dreams of being a photojournalist here in the United States. When he’s not snapping photos, he’s at home drinking coffee with his wife, Mariah, and […]
Let’s raise our glasses to the amazing Sue Steinkraus, long-time LSW tutor and our August 2020 Volunteer of the Month. Sue first became involved with LSW in the 1980s when it was called the Laubauch Literacy Center. Although she has been working in the Adult Basic Education program at our Downtown location for the past […]