In the 2025-26 school year, four new classes are being offered to De Pere High School students.
New classes include Spanish for the Medical Professions, Digital Literacy of Healthcare and Mobile App Development. Additionally, the school will be bringing back Creative Dramatics after two years of it not being offered.
Spanish for the Medical Professions will be offered to sophomores, juniors and seniors who have taken Spanish 2 as well as being enrolled in Spanish 3, 4 or 5.
This class will be taught by Kristin Dekker, who believes that this class, “addresses a field that everybody interacts with in their life, that being their own health and their own wellness.”
Dekker hopes that students can leave her class with a knowledge of how to discuss topics of sickness and medical terms with confidence and compassion.
Another class available to juniors and seniors only will be Digital Literacy of Healthcare, which will be taught by Alisha Enderby, who has taught this class before at her previous school, Green Bay East. This class will focus on how to handle and navigate digital medical documents and systems.
If Digital Literacy of Healthcare is taken along with other DPHS classes — Medical Terminology and Contemporary Healthcare Practices — students are given the opportunity to receive their healthcare customer service representative certificate, which could possibly give students a pay raise at their jobs.
“There’s so many shortages in health careers that there’s a need for students to be interested in general in that direction,” said Enderby.
Mobile App Development will be taught by Amy Soquet. This class will aim to teach students the ins and outs of coding applications for phones.
“I think it will be a very interesting mix of being able to design your screen and have the logic of the coding behind it,” Soquet said, “It’s kind of a mix between web design and Computer Science 1.”
Mobile App Development will be an entry level digital literacy class that is offered to any grade level.
In addition, the school will be bringing back Creative Dramatics. The class will be taught by Betsy Hornseth, who hopes to connect with kids who have a love of acting.
Creative Dramatics intends to teach students acting skills through a variety of methods such as role playing, improvisation, games and more.
“I always wanted to act,” Hornseth commented. “It is fun to reconnect with it and see that spark in other kids who just want to get up there and try something different.”
