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The Wooster City Schools Spelling Bee was held on December 9, 2022, at Wooster High School with thirteen participating students ranging from sixth to eighth grades. Battling for the win were Nick Kakanuru and Noah Greene. The overall winner was Nick Kakanuru, eighth grader at Wooster High School, with ‘misericords’, a word with dual spelling possibilities: ‘misericords’ or ‘misericordes’. The runner up was Noah Greene, a sixth grader at Edgewood Middle School, who correctly spelled the word ‘pell-mell’. Third place was Edgewood’s Elijah (Eli) Dean who correctly spelled, ‘reenactment’. Tied for fourth place were Edgewood students Joel French and Delaney Hoffman. Kakanuru and Greene will advance to the Wayne County Spelling Bee to be held on January 24, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. at Orrville High School. Congratulations to all participants in this year’s Spelling Bee.

The Wooster City School District is happy to announce that beginning January 2023, Akron Children's Hospital will be offering school based health services directly from school. With parental consent, children can be seen by an Akron Children's Pediatric Provider while in the school clinic. 

To learn more about this program or to register your child view the links below:

Program Details

Consent Form

How to Use School Based Health Services

The Junior Women's Service Club would like to thank the elementary students of the Wooster City School District for their wonderful Veteran's Day cards. They received over 300 cards which will be given out at a free veterans dinner on Thursday at the American Legion.There were enough to also provide cards to The Leaf Restaurant, which is having free meals on Friday for Veteran's Day.

Thank you to all who served and we hope these cards helped make the day a special memory to all who attended!

It is with great pleasure that the Ohio Art Education Association recognizes Dawn Blattel as the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Art Teacher Award. She has demonstrated a commitment to supporting the visual arts and has impacted your region of Ohio in a positive way. Her nomination for this distinction was pulled from a collection of almost 2000 art educators statewide.   

Dawn shares in her personal philosophy, “As an only child, making was a favored way to pass time including my “mud pie desk” and hours spent building with what I found in nature.  I still affirm I must make things to be a happy human. I focus on developing a collection of skills which could be mastered across a spectrum of materials and used to enhance each other.  I chose to be an art teacher as a sophomore in 1996 and I am still excited to go to work over 25 years later. The best reward is to continue to experiment, create and learn more, now I am the one sharing my personal artistic process with my students much like I had from my art teachers throughout my life.”

In appreciation of her award, the Ohio Art Education Association would like to take this opportunity for you to celebrate and congratulate her on winning this award. 

She will receive her official award at our OAEA State Conference  “Creating Your Best DAYton” this coming Friday, November 11th, 2022 in Dayton, OH at the Dayton Convention Center Awards Ceremony Night!

The Wooster City School District Board of Education has added a student representative to its regular meetings. This representative will serve as a link between the student body and the Board of Education. Each month, the student rep will report out to the BOE on current activities going on at Wooster High School as well as some of the issues and concerns of the student body. The board plans to have a different rep each semester. For Fall 2022, the Student Representative is Senior Jacob Hannan. Welcome Jacob!

The Wooster City School District Board of Education is proud to announce their newest member, Cody Austin. Austin interviewed on Aug. 29 for the open spot and was sworn in on Sept. 19. He is replacing Dr. Mike Knapic, who resigned on Aug. 24.

“Mr. Austin is going to be a terrific addition to the Board of Education,” Wooster Superintendent Gabe Tudor said. “He is a champion for providing high-quality education for all students and shares our passion for fiscal responsibility.”

Austin, a financial advisor, started Austin Wealth Solutions in March 2018, providing financial coaching and advising services. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from The University of Akron and his MBA from U of A, as well, specializing in leadership & organizational change, in 2015. He has also worked as a general manager with the Troy Miller Agency in Shreve and as an independent consultant for Hartzler Family Dairy in Wooster.

“I’m honored to answer the call to be on the Wooster Board of Education,” Austin said. “I’m ready to put my skills to work, and I look forward to laying the groundwork to create a bright future for the next generation.”

The board’s primary responsibility is to establish programs and procedures that will facilitate maximum learning for every student. The board must accomplish this while also being responsible for the wise management of resources available to the district. The board must fulfill these responsibilities by functioning primarily as a legislative body to formulate and adopt policy, by selecting an executive officer to implement policy and evaluating the results; further, it must carry out its functions openly while seeking the involvement and contributions of the public, students and staff in its decision-making process.

Please help us to congratulate our 2022-2023 Outstanding Teacher Award Recipient, Mrs. Diane Mealey.  Diane is an English Language Arts Teacher at Wooster High School. She began her teaching career there in the 2000-2001 school year and has been there ever since.

Diane is known for her high expectations of her students and goes above and beyond to make her classroom an engaging and fun place to learn. She is always willing to go above and beyond for her students. Diane always provides a safe space and makes students feel comfortable talking with her if they have any issues both in and out of the classroom.

Help us to also congratulate our 2022-2023 Outstanding Staff Member Award Recipient, Mrs. Robin Long. Robin began her Wooster Career in 2008 as the Athletic Department Secretary and Ticket Manager. In 2014, she transferred to Edgewood Middle School and in 2018 moved to the Early Learning Center.

Robin is loved by all who meet her and has impacted many lives throughout her time in Wooster.

Thank you Ralph R. and Grace B Jones Foundation and its trustees for honoring one staff member and one teacher each year. The foundation has been honoring outstanding teachers since 2000 and outstanding staff members since 2007. The full list can be found here: tinyurl.com/2l3jhuum