COVID Policy Update May 31, 2022 Beginning Tuesday, May 31st , LSW will require all students, volunteers, and staff to wear masks at all our locations. This is in response to the CDC having moved Milwaukee County into its “High” risk classification. We continuously monitor the spread of COVID-19 at a national, state, and local level while […]
Gilbert & Cecilia
Break new ground. Leave no stone unturned. Turn the tide… What do the phrases above have in common? If your answer is that all three are examples of idioms, then you are correct! Yes, these are all idioms, expressions that have meanings that often cannot be deduced directly from the individual words in the saying. […]
Waukesha Center Open House
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 […]
2022 COVID Policy Update
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 […]
Volunteer of the Month – April 2021
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 […]
Volunteer of the Month – March 2021
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 […]
Volunteer of the Month – December 2020
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 […]
Innovator in Secondary Education Credentialing
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] […]
Volunteer of the Month – September 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 […]
Online Panel Discussion
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