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Nonprofit Org U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 2431 Minneapolis, MN 1001 Highway 7 • Hopkins, MN 55305 2006-2007 annual HEFreport Join us at the 9th Annual Gala saturday, february 23, 2008 minneapolis marriott, city center Mark your calendar for the 9th Annual Hopkins Education Foundation Gala at the beautifully renovated Minneapolis Marriott - City Center. The evening promises to be a fun night as the Hopkins community gathers to raise more than $125,000 for innovative and enriching educational opportunities for Hopkins Public Schools. The new “Gala After Hours” will feature rising star Alison Scott. For Our FUTURE Hopkins Education Foundation Gala 2008 investing in our children... investing in our Future created for the future giving for the future Our Letter from the president Mission: Dear Friends, “If we give our kids a good start, they can use Thank you for your visionary support of the Hopkins Education Foundation. Through your Acquire generosity, the Foundation provides funds at every age level to help the 7,900 students in the what they learn to be successful and Hopkins School District become tomorrow’s citizens and leaders. The investment you are contribute back to the community.” and utilize making will last a lifetime. – Randy Schwichtenberg resources The Foundation, through our Enrichment Grants, assists our educators by providing “research Living the Future and development” support to the District. These grants offer teachers and administrators the Providing opportunities for kids to succeed is an important part of Randy opportunity to test a teaching approach or try new technology in the classroom, to evaluate its and Cathy Schwichtenberg’s support of the Hopkins Education Foundation. to enrich impact and make plans for its integration. Supporters since 2005, Randy and Cathy feel that enriching the educational Randy and Cathy Schwichtenberg experience benefits everyone by building a stronger community. “If we give our kids a good start, they educational In response to the needs of our District, the Foundation created Resource Fund Grants to help can use what they learn to be successful and contribute back to the community,” states Randy. offset District budget cuts. In the 2007-08 school year, HEF grants funded an additional experiences guidance counselor at the high school and the continuance of the primary art specialists to serve The Schwichtenbergs want all children in the Hopkins School District to graduate with a strong the students in first through third grades. Once again, from elementary school to high school, foundation for continued learning. That certainly was the case for daughters Christine, a 2006 we are giving our students great training and tools for the future. You can read more about these graduate of St. Olaf, and Emily, currently a junior at Concordia College. “Even though our kids within grants on pages 2 and 3. have graduated, we still feel connected to Hopkins,” says Cathy. “Supporting the community as a whole improves everyone’s quality of life.” the Hopkins We are grateful to a talented team of volunteers for a successful 8th Annual Gala on March 3, Cathy and Randy have doubled their giving through their employer match program at Wells Fargo. 2007. The event raised more than $125,000. It is through the generosity of parents, businesses, “We ramped up our contribution because it’s doubled through Wells Fargo’s match program. What School staff, and alumni that we were able to award more than $165,000 in grants in 2006-07. a great way to have an even greater impact on our schools.” District. Today is the beginning of the future for Hopkins students. The lessons they learn and the challenges they conquer prepare them for the next grade, college, careers and life. Personally, hopkins high school awarded a guidance counselor grant I’ve seen how fast the future approaches. In the blink of an eye my kindergartner was a tackle High school years are full of important caring adult who can make them aware of the on the high school football team and has now moved on to college. I’m grateful to live in a decisions. All of them, from class choices and diverse classroom and extracurricular choices community that values and supports public education. extracurricular activities to friends, can have available to them. an enormous impact on our children’s future. On behalf of the Hopkins Education Foundation Board of Trustees, thank you for investing The more adults involved in our children’s Slinde believes both students and parents have lives, guiding them to make good choices, felt a significant difference and “in most cases, 2006-07 in our children. They are the future. the better off they are. the wait for counselor appointments has been Board of Trustees cut from four weeks to one week.” Parent With gratitude, That is why a resource grant allowing Mardie Marshall echoes this and feels things Ellen Cousins Counselor Lydia Kabaka-Travis Hopkins High School to hire a fifth guidance have greatly improved from last year. meets with a student. counselor was such a wonderful and important Katie Erickson Jay Hromatka Virginia Harn gift. Each term, counselors address graduation Slinde says our counseling staff is “remarkably requirements, study strategies and mental health talented and caring” and often in their offices Kip Heegaard Jay Hromatka concerns for the existing student body, as well beyond the typical eight hour day. They work Alan Henningsgaard President HHS students have as testing and placement for the influx of new closely with staff and students to address behavior Ann Herzog-Olson Hopkins Class of 1978, Eisenhower diverse opportunities students. Mary Slinde, Associate Principal at concerns as well as post secondary questions Parent of Ben ‘07 and Sam ‘14 Hopkins High, says the faculty also strive to and opportunities. Jay Hromatka at graduation Danny Kaplan provide a “safe place, emotionally and physically, David Koppe O when students are at school.” With the post-secondary world increasingly more competitive and complicated, guidance Kris Newcomer 65% • 4-year university The grant decreased the student-to-counselor counselors are more important than ever. This Nancy Renneke 18% • 2-year university ratio substantially, from the previous year’s grant helps Hopkins High continue to give our Cathy Spicola 525 to one to 420 to one. The addition of a fifth students the resources they need to succeed. 10% • other Jane Welch (includes military, living abroad options) counselor allows more students to connect with a Julie Woolfrey 5% • technical school Preparing for the future Grant Preserves the Primary Art Specialist Program “Understanding how to employ technology to locate and evaluate information, to learn, Studies show that students with education Approximately 2,000 students are directly affected reason, make decisions, solve problems, and to collaborate and work in teams will be in the arts do better in all other aspects of by this grant, and over time nearly 6,000 Hopkins education, are more likely to participate in students will benefit. The Primary Art Specialist essential abilities in the rapidly changing world.” student leadership, and are more likely to is a critical part of the curriculum. Very few of – CEO Forum on Education & Technology score higher on their SAT’s. the elementary teachers have the artistic skill and training to effectively teach the curriculum. The A strong art background is one of the primary Art Specialist also provides gifted and West Junior High Technology Grants hallmarks of an education in the Hopkins talented children with Teachers at West Junior High demonstrated • When math instructors teach school district. In fact the U of M and an art mentor creative thinking when they submitted grants a lesson, they might not know Minneapolis College of Art and Design throughout their for the Spring 2007 application deadline. Terry if students understand until Art Specialists Karen Anderson and actively recruit from only two high schools elementary experience. Wolfson, West Junior High Principal, encouraged they grade homework. Alicia Sarah Honeywell with Sandy Merry, in the nation—Perpich Arts High School and her staff to submit grants that supported the Beebe’s new Classroom District Fine Arts Coordinator. Hopkins High School. “The elementary arts school’s literacy initiative. Part of Wolfson’s Performance System will help program,” states another vision for the school’s literacy initiative involves her know right away if the lesson Thanks to a generous grant from the Hopkins teacher, “is vital to developing expertise in technology. makes sense to students. Every Education Foundation, the Primary Art Specialist, children. It is one of the student in the classroom will hold which was nearly eliminated during last year’s few venues that gives Three grants were awarded last Spring and are a clicker to answer questions. budget cuts, will continue. The HEF grant children a voice to currently being implemented to support this goal. The system immediately identifies allows the continuation of the award-winning express themselves.” • Seventh grade social studies students are learning who answered correctly and who art program. Student Artwork about geography through using GPS units. This responded incorrectly or not at all. technology provides an engaging way for grant writer Anne Sateren and her colleagues to teach This technology enables her to Grant Focuses on Boys and Writing map reading skills as well as introduce all their adapt her teaching to the classes’ needs and students to a useful tool. identify students needing more challenge In recent years, much focus has been given to or help. It also provides reports for her to girls’ achievement in school. Recent attention • Ben Friesen, 8th grade science teacher, is a study when preparing future lessons. The is drawn to the unique learning struggles technology leader in the district.

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