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The Best Places to Raise Your Kids |
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A Chicago suburb beats out thousands of other
communities around the U.S. as the best, most affordable place to raise
kids  Mount Prospect, Ill., is a quiet Chicago suburb with a population of just over 56,000. It is a tight-knit town where over the past eight years Prospect High School's football team won three state championships, its Marching Knights picked up their 26th straight grand champion title at the annual state marching band festival, and just last month the school itself ranked 12th among all state high schools. Now the town is also the winner of Businessweek's second annual roundup of the Best Places in America to Raise Kids. Founded by German immigrants and incorporated in 1917, Mount Prospect hasn't strayed far from its values of fiscal conservatism and community involvement, even as it has expanded to include new immigrants from Poland, Mexico, Korea, and India. It is a middle-class community with low crime, affordable homes, award-winning schools, ethnic restaurants, a major regional mall, and a small-town charm that makes the big city less than an hour away seem much farther away. Read the full article in Business Week here! |
Writing Online |
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 3rd
graders at Fairview have been collaborating online with students in
Kennedy Elementary School District 81. Recently they completed a
collaborative Halloween story using Google Docs for Education. Google
docs allowed students to write stories collaboratively online with
buddies from Kennedy. Stories were written, edited and then shared
electronically. You can see the process, as well as movies online of
students working together to illustrate the stories they wrote
here. The same class has begun using Voicethreads as well. VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices (taken from their website). 3rd graders have begun using Voicethread to create Mathcasts on their work. You can see all this work on their wiki here. A wiki is a free tool that allows content to be published easily online. Wikis are a great way to promote collaboration and highlight student work. |
Four Open Board Seats for April 7 Election
Candidate packets, including nominating petition forms for the April 7,
2009, school board election for Mount Prospect School District 57, are
currently available. Forms may be picked up in the office of Board of
Education secretary Virginia Webster at the Administrative Building,
701 West Gregory Street, on any business day between the hours of 8 AM
and 4:30 PM. Candidates may begin circulating their nominating
petitions for signatures no earlier than October 28, 2008. |
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Lincoln Students Collaborate Online!Students at Lincoln have been using Northwestern's Collaboratory Project to study the current election. Using authentic, electronic resources they've been researching topics in depth and sharing information they find. Student research is based on the Big 6 Digital Literacy skills. Students have been designing campaign posters for each candidate, along with both an oral and written summary of their research and work. The Collaboratory Project allows students to both work and collaborate online. Teachers can post comments and share resources with their classes, and allow student access both during and after school from home. The Collaboratory is a free service provided through Northwestern University. More information can be found online at: http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/index.html |
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D57 Goes GreenDistrict 57 has started investigating ways to promote the health and well being of both the planet and its community. Starting this year schools will begin to look for ways to decrease the use of consumables, as well as save money through the use of tools and technologies that promote a more green way of living. Over the next few months the district will begin to implement strategies through which content and information can be more efficiently communicated to the community using newsletters, subscription services as well as other online tools. |
21st Century SkillsDistrict 57 teachers and staff have begun a district commitment to the use and integration of 21st century skills throughout the curriculum. Teachers will be investigating how this impacts instruction and personal growth throughout the year through professional development opportunities. Further information about 21st Century Skills can be found through these links: Framework for 21st Century Skills: An excellent overview of what 21st Century Skills are and how they impact learning, critical thinking and literacy skills. 21st Century Literacy: How literacy today is defined and the implications of a technology rich learning experience. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy: How does the increase in information impact the levels of learning? |
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Fairview Wins Blue Ribbon Award!Recently Fairview received an email from the U.S. Dept of Education indicating that Secretary Margaret Spellings had designated Fairview School as a 2008 No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon School. Fairview is one of 320 schools to receive this award in 2008 for helping students to achieve at very high levels. Over the past 26 years this distinction has honored more than 5,800 schools in the United States.An awards ceremony will be held in Washington, D.C. on October 20-21 to honor this year’s recipients. April Jordan and Karen Banakis, (principal and teacher representative, respectively) will be representing Fairview at the ceremony. Additionally, we are working with the Village and our elected officials to make this a very special occasion for Fairview School at a local event, yet to be formalized. |
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The 2008 District Report Cards Have Been Posted
