Chalk Talk

The Berrien County 5th Year Early/Middle College (E/MC) is a five-year high school program where students extend their high school...

By Ken Dietz

Panther Nation: Working Together To Keep Us Together

This week, ten staff members from Watervliet Public Schools successfully completed training in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for...

The 5th graders at North School are using technology to learn how to research and write persuasive presentations. They have been hard at work this week using Inquiry Space, an interactive component of the Wonders reading curriculum. The students have learned how to find and evaluate information, take notes, outline, and cite their sources. When the kids finish their research, they will write a persuasive speech that they will present to their classmates using visual aids

It has been a busy school year for my role as Instructional Technology Coach for Watervliet Public Schools. I went into 5th grade classrooms and Mrs. Wilson’s 6th grade classroom to help students learn how to use PowToons to create presentations.

The Watervliet Athletic programs look like they have turned the corner again and are headed in a positive direction after a couple of tough years. Hard work and dedication from our players, stability in our coaching ranks, positive supportive parents, mix that all together and you have a pretty good recipe for success. This corner that we have turned comes with a great deal of THANKS.

Defining anxiety

New grades, new buildings for some, and lots of new faces. We’re excited to start the new school year with a strong group of teachers who has hired on to teach our students. What we are most excited about is the wealth of experience that many of the teachers that have been hired bring to Watervliet.

By Cathy Stants and Tameka Tyson

By Amy Oetjens

Watervliet Public Schools has countless bright spots to highlight throughout our district. At South Elementary, we are proud to be the place where our littlest Panthers begin their journey, and we are particularly proud of the work we are doing to plant the seeds of literacy so our Little Panthers will blossom into big readers!

At Watervliet Public Schools, we are envisioning the most effective ways of educating our students. Part of that reimagining of teaching and learning at Watervliet is providing more choices for students in their learning. Choices in learning are key to students realizing their full potential after graduation. Choices come in many forms, so we wanted to let you know where we plan to go in the future.

Watervliet Middle School Robotics Team, the Pantarians, competed in a remote competition with 20 other teams on Thursday, May 13, 2021....

The Berrien County Hearing Impaired Program performs hearing evaluations for children ages birth through grade 12 in which licensed...

Decision Day

It has been a busy start to my new position as Instructional Technology Coach for the district. I have been able to go into classrooms to help teachers and students with new technology and to create small mini lessons for the classes. The 5th grade students at North School have been the students I have worked with the most so far this year and they get so excited when they know Mrs. O is coming into class. I have been a teacher now for 20 years and it has been a transition to

What a decade it has been! Yes, that is correct, W-A-Y Watervliet High School is approaching the end of our tenth year! The W-A-Y model was adopted and put into place in the fall of 2011 and has been growing ever since. We are particularly proud of our implementation of career pathways. Guiding students to their high school diploma as well as assisting in their plan for their next steps forward in their life journey is a real privilege.

by Angela Schmidt and Krystal Pratt Watervliet South Elementary more than rose to the challenge of collecting cereal boxes for local food...

The 5th graders at North School had “Breakfast and a Book” with #9 Jashon Cornell, of the Detroit Lions February 26, 2021. He came live...