The Visionary

News from Fort Wayne Community Schools

Welcome to Fort Wayne Community Schools' community newsletter. Each month we share news from our schools and important District information. Have an idea for a story? Please share it with us!

FWCS donates school bus for use at Safety Village

FWCS donates school bus to be used at the Safety Village.

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Fort Wayne Community Schools donated a retired school bus to the Fort Wayne Fire Department and the Fort Wayne Police Department to be used for safety training.

The bus will be stationed at the Safety Village. It will be used to teach children how to safely evacuate a bus during emergencies like crashes. The training is designed to equip students with essential life-saving skills.

This partnership between Fort Wayne Community Schools and local emergency services demonstrates a commitment to student safety and community well-being.

The Safety Village combines both police and fire safety educational curriculums.

Children learn how to evacuate a school bus at Safety Village. The school bus was donated by Fort Wayne Community Schools.

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Children enter a school bus to learn how to evacuate a bus during an emergency situation.

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Want to join the FWCS team? We're hiring Bus Drivers and Bus Assistants!

The wheels on the buses can’t go round and round without you as a Bus Driver. We are actively seeking Bus Drivers and Bus Assistants to grow our dedicated transportation team. No CDL? No problem! We can assist interested applicants with the process of obtaining a Commercial Driver’s License, and we can even pay you as a Bus Assistant during the training period. Performance-based incentives available! Apply online at www.fwcsjobs.org!

Mayor Tucker visits Peacemaker Academy

Mayor Sharon Tucker takes group photo with Peacemaker Academy students.

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For the first time, students from all five FWCS high schools are participating in the Alive Community Outreach Peacemaker Academy. To show her support and to inspire these young community leaders, Mayor Sharon Tucker visited the students and offered words of encouragement.

The Peacemaker Academy is a leadership development program that teaches sophomores, juniors and seniors the six principles of nonviolence as taught by Martin Luther King Jr. It originally started with 12 students and has now increased to 60 students.

Mayor Tucker inspires students at the Peacemaker Academy.

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“We are very pleased to be expanding our Peacemaker program to all FWCS high schools,” said Angelo Mante, Executive Director for Alive Community Outreach. “This will allow us to develop even more leaders who are committed to making peace in their school and community. We are grateful to Mayor Sharon Tucker for meeting with our students and supporting their efforts to build a culture of peace in their schools.”

The Peacemaker Academy expansion is made possible from funding provided by the SAFER schools initiative.

Croninger composter is Positively Fort Wayne

Walter Majewski will enter fifth grade at Croninger Elementary when school resumes in the August. His passion is to help the environment by composting food waste. His story was recently featured on WANE-TV during a Positively Fort Wayne segment.

Kid composter helps the environment thrive and is Positively Fort Wayne

Walter Majewski's love for the environment began at just 3 years old when he took an interest in the garbage and recycling trucks that would pass through his neighborhood. He would chase the trucks on their routes and even became familiar with some of the drivers.

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Levan Scott Academy unveils new renovations to public

After a nearly two-year renovation that doubled the size of Levan Scott Academy, the doors were opened to the public to tour the new education space.

The $17 million project added 19 modernized classrooms, a media center, cafeteria, collaboration spaces, parking lot and a parent pick-up lane.

Scott Academy opened in 1956 under the name Southern Heights Elementary School.

In 2000, the school was renamed in honor of Dr. Levan R. Scott, who served Fort Wayne Community Schools for 28 years. He was the first African American principal in the city when he took over as the leader of McCulloch Elementary School in 1965. When he retired from FWCS in 1986, he was Assistant Superintendent for Administrative Services.

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