Teaching Today, Leading Tomorrow - Wheatland High School

Posted Date: 09/18/2025

Awareness of current events can be a vital component of a comprehensive high school education. By engaging with contemporary issues at the local, state, national, and even global levels, students cultivate critical thinking and analytical skills that extend beyond the classroom. Exposure to, and interaction with, current events fosters civic literacy, enabling young people to better understand the complexities of governance, economics, science, and culture in an interconnected world.  Integrating knowledge of ongoing issues into their studies equips students to draw meaningful connections between theoretical concepts and practical realities, ultimately preparing them to be informed and responsible people within our society.  WHS students pictured here are engaging in a current event assignment in which they must answer a variety of questions designed to stimulate thinking and enable them to engage in discussions with their classmates.Awareness of current events can be a vital component of a comprehensive high school education. By engaging with contemporary issues at the local, state, national, and even global levels, students cultivate critical thinking and analytical skills that extend beyond the classroom. Exposure to, and interaction with, current events fosters civic literacy, enabling young people to better understand the complexities of governance, economics, science, and culture in an interconnected world.  Integrating knowledge of ongoing issues into their studies equips students to draw meaningful connections between theoretical concepts and practical realities, ultimately preparing them to be informed and responsible people within our society.  WHS students pictured here are engaging in a current event assignment in which they must answer a variety of questions designed to stimulate thinking and enable them to engage in discussions with their classmates.