Washburn Junior, Antoine Duke, has been chosen to compete in Minnesota’s QUEST FOR THE VOICE Finals. This is a spoken word competition. He has made it through preliminaries, and semi finals, and has been chosen as one of the top 20 youth poets in MN! He will be competing for a chance to representMinnesota at [...]
Peace Jam — a service project to help homeless youth
Peace Jam
Hello, our Washburn Family! The Peace Jam group at Washburn High School is doing a service project to help homeless youth. This is a project very near and dear to our hearts. We hope you can help us fulfill our goal of providing basic essentials to our homeless youth in Minneapolis.
Peace Jam is an [...]
Washburn Students Work with Graphic Design Students to Fight Intolerance
Create! Don’t Hate, a youth mentoring initiative built around the theme of tolerance, was launched in late January at Washburn High School, a Minneapolispublic school. The program gives youth in underserved communities a real-world experience using design thinking to communicate their ideas, discover their potential, and take action in their communities.
For this initiative, AIGA Minnesota, [...]
Nancy Gustafson French Teacher: ‘Why I joined the Fund Raising Steering Committee’
I’ve been teaching French in Minneapolis Public Schools since 1980. I’ve spent 22 of those years at Washburn High School. Many changes have taken place during those years, but one thing has not changed. Fantastic young people still come to Washburn to get an education. The faces and backgrounds of the students have changed, and [...]
WHS applies for the IB diploma programme
From Marianne Melton, IB Coordinator
Washburn, in 2007-08, conducted a feasibility study determining that the IB diploma programme was an attainable goal that would readily meet the needs of its diverse student body. Its emphasis in a holistic approach aligns with Washburn’s ideals to develop students in academics, in the arts and in athletics. To become [...]
Washburn Fine Arts in rebuilding mode
“Building a Place We Belong” started take shape last year with a full house for the Fall Fine Arts Kick- Off and the award winning musical production of “The Wiz.” The Hennepin Theatre Trust SpotLight Program presented five actors from “The Wiz” with outstanding performance awards. The instrumental students participated at the State Solo & [...]
Star Tribune features Washburn’s fresh start: ‘New life for a long-struggling Minneapolis Washburn’
From Star Tribune writer Emily John, (October 5, 2009):
In southwest Minneapolis, a school revival is underway. Washburn High School, which in recent years lost hundreds of students and posted bottom-of-the-barrel test scores, is making a comeback. In the second year of a “fresh start” that has transformed how the school operates, Washburn has turned around [...]
