– Our Annual Appeal –
For the 2025-2026 school year, this campaign will support district initiatives designed to inspire innovative thinking, nurture student growth, and strengthen learning. Key efforts include expanding outdoor learning spaces, deepening partnerships such as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra program, expanding STEAM opportunities, supporting empowerment programs, and meeting additional district priorities.
This year, the Fox Point - Bayside School District has identified the creation of outdoor learning spaces as a top educational initiative. Spaces where students and teachers can gather, explore, and learn off screens and outdoors, together.
As your Fox Point - Bayside Education Foundation, we’re proud to stand behind this vision and help make it possible for our students. But we can’t do it without YOU.
Thanks to the generosity of this community, we helped fund brand-new playgrounds at both district schools, a tremendous success that strengthened play, accessibility, and connection for students and neighbors alike.
Help us take the next step!
These outdoor learning spaces aren’t playgrounds, they’re intentional extensions of the classroom. They are places where science, reading, art, and collaboration unfold under open skies.
- Communities that invest in outdoor learning environments see a return of more than $3 for every $1 invested, through improved health, stronger neighborhoods, and long-term academic success.*
- 88% of teachers report that children are happier after learning or playing outdoors.*
- Students who participate in outdoor education show up to a 48% increase in classroom engagement after outdoor lessons.*
When we give children opportunities to engage, interact and explore in fresh air, they don’t just absorb learning better—they develop confidence, teamwork, and a lifelong sense of wonder.
When our schools thrive, our community thrives, property values rise, neighborhoods grow stronger, and local pride deepens.
Your contribution allows the Foundation to help fund this multi-year outdoor learning space initiative, as well as other district programs, like our MSO partnership and grade-specific retreats, that enrich learning, strengthen our community, and inspire the next generation.
While the district has made significant strides in updating school facilities, the success of these educational programs and enhancements relies on the financial support of our community. Your contributions are essential to ensuring these impactful programs continue to benefit our students.
Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a difference in providing students with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed. We invite you to join us in supporting this important work. Please help us fuel these initiatives with a tax-deductible donation of any amount.
Thank you for your dedication to our schools and your investment in our students’ future.
Sources: Muddy Hands Report, Outdoor Classroom Day (2018); Tutors International, Summary of Nature-Based Learning Research (2023); Teach Magazine, “5 Benefits of Green Schoolyards,” citing economic and public health research from the Children & Nature Network (2021).
Your support makes a difference!
Last year, our community's generous support of the Trailblazing Beyond the Classroom campaign enabled partnerships with the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, offering immersive outdoor programming for students, supported an inclusive education program by The Ability Center, providing adaptive physical education, and empowered all 7th graders to attend the Courage Retreat—a heartfelt thank you for making these impactful initiatives possible!