News!
Oakwood Environmental Education
Charter School
2008
Environment Focused Teachers
Academy will be
held in August, 2008! Details
or 2007
Academy slide show.
This educationally immersive academy
is free to
educators!
News! We
are now officially listed on the Wisconsin
DNR list of "Green and Healthy Schools"- step 1. Our
pledge is signed, our stickers and welcome letter were just
delivered and will be displayed on the PTO bulletin board in
the Oakwood front entry. More. To
view the signing of the pledge, click
here.
The Oakwood Environmental
Education Charter School was awarded a Dissemination Grant for the
2007-2008 school year, running through July 31,
2008!
A
complete CD of information on the Oakwood Environmental Education
Charter School from Brainstorming through Dissemination is
available for schools interested in reviewing the process of
application, continuation, results in the form of project
documentation through curriculum and photo galleries to student
produced video documentaries. This excellent resource is
available because of our commitment through the current
Dissemination Grant to assist schools. For a copy, please email Kirby
Schultz.
The Oshkosh Area School District
Board of Education established the
Oakwood
Environmental
Education
Charter
School in June of
2003. The charter
school was established to utilize the 26 acre Sheldon Nature Area
ecosystem located directly behind
Oakwood
Elementary School as an environmental education
laboratory.
The
Sheldon Nature Area committee has developed the nature center into
an environmental education learning center through dedicated
community volunteers over the past twelve years. The committee chairperson,
John Walsh, has been the catalyst that transformed the site into a
beautiful living environmental educational laboratory. The vision of becoming an
Environmental Education Charter School, utilizing partnership with the
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh and Sheldon Nature Area was initiated by Dr.
Steve Maassen, an
Oakwood Elementary
School
parent. Dr. Maassen has had a
passion for improving student’s education by utilizing the
Environment as the integrating content for all curriculum
areas. | 
