Ironwood holds Back to School fair

By ZACHARY MARANO

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Ironwood - To help students get prepared for the first day of the coming school year, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Ironwood Area Schools held a Back to School fair at Luther L. Wright K-12 School on Thursday.

Outside the school, Superintendent Travis Powell was grilling hamburgers and hot dogs and serving them to students and their families while welcoming them back for another year of school.

Students were able to visit their classroom and meet their teachers.

Some students and their parents lined up at tables in the first-floor gym as part of the annual event to pick up their handbooks and class schedules for grades 7-12 and enroll in athletic programs.

There was also a table with information about the school's Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, part of the school's educational model that is being introduced this year to help struggling students.

There were also tables where parents could sign up for the Parent-Teacher Organization, which sponsors school dances and other activities, and sign up for transportation services.

Seventh-to-12th graders then continued upstairs to the second floor, where they picked up their Chromebook laptops in the school's Makerspace. These computers are provided so that everyone has access to their homework assignments, which are often posted on Google Classroom.

The second-floor elementary library was also open to the public after being closed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the closure, the library was improved with a new layout and reorganized library collection. Books that had not been checked out for a long time were removed from the collection and some of these books were provided to families for free on Thursday.