Monday, April 22, 2013
The Professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Dr. Robert Higgins, will be honored by the District 39 Educational Foundation.
Dr. Robert Higgins, Wilmette resident, the John H. and Mildred Lumley Medical Research Chair, Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Ohio State University, will be honored by the District 39 Educational Foundation with a Distinguished Citizen Award. Higgins will be honored in an award ceremony and reception on Thurs. April 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Michigan Shores Club in Wilmette. Dr. Higgins is a heart and lung transplant surgeon and has written over 100 per-reviewed papers and book chapters, a press release from the foundation states. Dr. Higgins also coaches youth football, baseball and lacrosse. He is a father of students in the District 39 school system and has lectured in …
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
With 23 out of 24 precincts reporting at the time of publication, a group of four candidates who ran together have taken the lead.
Update 11:14 p.m. At the time of publication, 23 out of 24 precincts were reporting. Hauser has the lowest percent of the votes as of 11:14 p.m. The four leading candidates — lcantara, Flanagin, Steen and Levine — all ran together. Four out of the five candidates will be elected to the Board. These results do not include early voting, voting by mail or provisional ballots. Any votes for write-in candidates will be counted within a week after the election. Five candidates are running for four positions in the District 39 Wilmette School Board. Keep checking Patch on Tuesday evening as results come in. Information about the candidates provided by the League of Women Voters of Wilmette.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Former Glencoe resident Barbara Savitt died March 27 at the age of 81.
Barbara Savitt, who served for 27 years at Wilmette Public Schools District 39, passed away at the age of 81 on March 27, after a brief battle with cancer, Wilmette Life reported. Cathy Flemming, a former Harper Elementary School teacher while Savitt served as the school’s principal, says Savitt was great at spontaneous community building, as well as supporting students and teachers through her decades of teaching and administration, Wilmette Life reported.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
District 39 Educational Foundation will honor Dr. Robert Higgins at a special Foundation reception on April 25.
Wilmette Public School District 39's Educational Foundation will award Dr. Robert Higgins with the 2013 Distinguished Citizen Award during a special reception on April 25, according to the foundation’s website. Dr. Higgins, a heart and lung transplant specialist and a cardiothoracic surgeon, is the sixth recipient of the Distinguished Citizen Award, which honors local community members who have made an exceptional contribution to the community and the world. The Wilmette resident and father of three is known within the District 39 community, as a coach of youth football, baseball and lacrosse, and has also lectured on the cardiovascular system through examination and dissection in the biology labs. Dr. Higgins currently serves as the …
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Five schools from Wilmette Elementary Schools District 39 and the Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth were given the honor for sustaining high academic performance for three consecutive years.
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Friday, February 1
Both Wilmette Elementary Schools District 39 and Kenilworth School District 38 were given high honors by the Illinois State Board of Education this week. The districts have a total of six schools named to the Academic Honor Roll and given the 2012 Academic Excellence Award. Central Elementary School, Harper Elementary School, Marie Murphy School, McKenzie Elementary School, Romona Elementary School and the Joseph Sears School are among 454 Illinois schools receiving the award. The schools honored all sustained high academic performances over the past three years. According to the Illinois State Board of Education, schools that receive the Academic Excellence Award must have at least 90 percent of elementary and middle students meeting …
Friday, December 21, 2012
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
In an amazing Friday morning press conference, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the American family, our …
Saturday, December 15, 2012
A letter to parents emphasized the district's commitment to school safety.
In response to Friday’s tragic school shooting at a grade school in Newton, Connecticut, Wilmette Public Schools Superintendent Ray Lecher wrote a letter to parents of district children, expressing his sadness and providing reassurance. In the letter, Lecher advises parents on how to talk to their children about the tragedy and assures readers of the district’s commitment to ensure school safety and prepare for potential emergency situations. Read more local coverage of the shooting at Newton Patch. Printed below is the superintendent’s statement in full: Dear Parents and Staff, Today our nation was struck with a very upsetting event. You may have heard about the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newton, Connecticut. All of us are …
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
A series interviewing District 39's new teachers to help you get better acquainted with these additions to the Wilmette community.
Name: Emily Ream Position: Second grade teacher at Central Elementary School Hometown: Overland Park, Kansas Age: 28 Education: Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Southern Nazarene University in 2007 Teaching Background: She taught fourth grade for one year in Oklahoma City and first grade for four years in Kansas City, in a district Ream says was very similar to District 39. What inspired you to become an educator? “It’s hard to remember, because since I was a child I was always playing school with my little brother. I was always drawn to education. My mom is a teacher, my grandma was a teacher, and so my family jokes that it’s in our blood. I think that the reason I chose to make a career out of it is that I feel really …
Monday, October 1, 2012
A series interviewing District 39's new teachers to help you get better acquainted with these additions to the Wilmette community.
Name: Katherine Robinson Position: Art Teacher at Harper School Hometown: Oak Park, IL Age: 24 Education: Bachelor of Arts in Art Education and Bachelor of Arts in Photography from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teaching Background: Artist in residence with Changing Worlds, an educational arts nonprofit organization. What inspired you to become an educator? “I’m just really drawn to the creativity of my students. I also think that art allows students’ voices to be heard. It allows adults to pay attention to what they have to say through creative means. I had a preschool interview where they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said an art teacher.” What attracted you to District 39? “It’s sort of like where I grew…
Thursday, September 27, 2012
A series interviewing District 39's new teachers to help you get better acquainted with these additions to the Wilmette community.
Name: Yiyi Xu Position: Mandarin teacher at Highcrest Middle School Hometown: Guangzhou, China Age: 35 Education: Undergraduate degree in mass communications from Guangzhou University Teaching Background: Four years as a Mandarin teacher in Jamesville, Wisconsin, teaching in grades three through five, and occasionally in grades six and seven. What inspired you to become an educator? “When I was working at Coca Cola [in China], they were sponsoring some of the schools in rural China, because the students there didn’t have English teachers. So I actually started a program in my company that initiated half of the staff members to volunteer to go to these rural schools to teach English during the weekend. So I think at that time, I planted …
Cole Pierce
7:23 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Haha, he will never undo the mental stupidity and damage he committed today for and against the NRA. Arm schools? More shooting in schools? More guns? Everyones fault but the weapon? Video games? What a boob! more ›