{"id":185,"date":"2013-04-22T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/siefert\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2013-04-22T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:58:01","slug":"partnerships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/programs\/partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cream City Links<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1563 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolwebsi.wpenginepowered.com\/siefert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2017\/03\/links-300x171.png\" alt=\"links\" width=\"251\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2017\/03\/links-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2017\/03\/links.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creamcitylinks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Links, Incorporated<\/a> has celebrated more than 65 years of service as a volunteer women\u2019s organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. The Cream City (WI) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated is focused on creating transformational programming and impacting lives in our community.\u00a0 Through their dedication and service to youth, the Links have provided much needed support in the form of hats and gloves for all students in the winter, backpacks with supplies to sustain students throughout the school year, a comfortable home-like reading corner to sustain and excel in the Cream City (WI) Links Reading Challenge, as well as valuable community experiences for our students with Marquette University and Marcus Theaters to view the\u00a0ground breaking movie, Hidden Figures.\u00a0 We love, thank, and appreciate the Links for their commitment to education and to the wonderful support for our students!<\/p>\n<h2>Colleges and Universities<\/h2>\n<p>Siefert Elementary School has partnerships with several colleges and universities\u00a0in Milwaukee and the surrounding communities.\u00a0\u00a0Students from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marquette University<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milwaukee Area Technical College<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Wisconsin-Whitewater<\/a> are matched with cooperating teachers at Siefert and assist with both student teaching and field work in our classrooms.\u00a0 Siefert teachers are given the opportunity to act as mentors for future educators, and our students\u00a0benefit from the\u00a0extra attention and innovative ideas that result from these collaborative partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cream City Links The Links, Incorporated has celebrated more than 65 years of service as a volunteer women\u2019s organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. The Cream City (WI) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated is focused on creating transformational programming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":180,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-185","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/siefert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}