“It feels like coming home,” said Gwen Harris, incoming head of Crystal Lake Montessori School. Harris is a life-long learner whose heart has long been rooted in the Montessori method. She graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in elementary education and an emphasis in science. She spent time student teaching in Spain as […]
Woodstock School District 200 is working on a plan for the 2020-21 school year, which is tentatively scheduled to begin in mid-August. Superintendent Mike Moan in late June sent D-200 families an email to report district administrators and staff were working with a “lengthy document” from the Illinois State Board of Education that outlined its […]
Parents interested in local preschool offerings will have a convenient opportunity to look at several options at the Preschool Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St. Parents are invited to meet with representatives from local preschools to find out what their programs have […]
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