Wheeling Park to Open Community Education Center in Partnership With Wheeling Country Day School Provided July 8, 2020 For decades, Wheeling Park was a popular community destination for roller skating, teen dances and a variety of community-based activities that have since disappeared as a result of changing trends. After mu...
COVID-19: Teachers Continue to Encourage, Motivate and Educate Christina Fisanick March 23, 2020 As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the world, the United States has had to take make some difficult decisions about ways to keep as many people healthy as possible. At this point, the key strat...
Will Charter Schools Land in Ohio County? Nora Edinger July 12, 2019 Editor's note: As this story was in final production, the West Virginia Education Association (teachers union) launched a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the new state law that authorizes chart...
Wheeling Country Day School: Celebrating 90 Years of Learning Christina Fisanick March 22, 2019 “To empower students to think, to create, and to communicate in a nurturing environment where learning and character are paramount.” — Wheeling County Day School’s mission 1929 was an epic year in Wheeling, We...
WCDS Students Give Warm Message to Homeless Provided January 24, 2019 Twenty-five second-graders from Wheeling Country Day School took a Martin Luther King Jr. Day field trip in frigid weather Monday to fill plastic bags with hand warmers and heartwarming messages for the homeles...
YWCA Looking for Tribute to Women Award Nominees Janet Boyle July 29, 2018 YWCA Wheeling is looking for women who make a difference in the Ohio Valley. The organization is calling for people to nominate women for its 2018 Tribute to Women awards, which recognize women who have gene...
Wheeling Country Day School Teacher Wins Presidential Award for Excellence Provided June 29, 2018 You’d have to look way back to October 2016 to find the first announcement from Wheeling Country Day School bragging up Margie Howells as a state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and S...
Weather Balloon Launch: ‘Truly a Five-Sense Experience’ Laura Jackson Roberts May 23, 2018 Fifth grade at Wheeling Country Day School is a special year. The most senior class serves as leaders and sets examples for other students. They get to visit the Stone Lab in Lake Erie and the capitol buildin...
Wheeling Country Day Student Murals To Be Unveiled Provided May 21, 2018 Through the support of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Wheeling Country Day School has been the site of a full-year teaching artist residency. Funds were made available to the school through Oglebay ...
Can Teaching Kids Compassion Change Culture? Glynis Board October 22, 2017 As compassion training is becoming more popular in schools across the country, a school in West Virginia is taking on a pilot compassion curriculum project of its own. The goal is to improve student achievement...
A More Compassionate Country Day Glynis Board July 29, 2017 1 Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story and audio here: Listen As compassion training is becoming more popular in schools across the country, a school in Wes...
Let’s Talk About Bullying Luke Hladek January 17, 2017 1 You may have noticed billboards around town recently suggesting just that. Next week, Wheeling Country Day School will again take on bullying, a subject carrying with it quite a variety of reactions, to say the...
SMILING THROUGH THE RAINDROPS Luke Hladek November 9, 2016 1 As I woke last Friday for Grandparents Day to the realization that yes, the temperature drop will, in fact, directly coincide with the buckets of rain heading into the area, I found an odd smile creep across my...
