Garden at Creekside Middle Schools aims to touch on the senses Creekside Middle School life skills teacher Jennifer Moskowitz has received a D200 Education Foundation Impact Grant this year to complete a project she began with a grant in 2015-16. The funds support a sensory garden on the campus in memory of three Creekside life […]
A century ago, plans designed by Hewitt & Emerson Architect of Peoria were transformed into one of the first new school buildings in the growing city of Woodstock, which was then the typewriter capital of the world. Dean Street School, originally built as an eight-room schoolhouse, still sits among the carefully restored Victorian homes just […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com As students return to classes Aug. 16 in Woodstock School District 200, they will find six administrators in new roles. Three new principals, two assistant principals, and a new athletic director have started in their new positions, including some promotions from within D-200, according to a news release. Ryan Doyle, who has […]
Discussion of the Dean Street Elementary School facility was on the agenda for the Feb. 13 meeting of the Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education. After an address by the president of Dean Street’s PTO and comments from board members Russell Goerlitz and John Parisi, Board President Carl Gilmore called for a final vote […]
An award-winning Spanish author whose children’s books have been translated into a dozen languages visited Woodstock schools last week. Margarita del Mazo held storytelling sessions for kindergartners through fifth-graders and conducted workshops for teachers throughout Woodstock School District 200. Del Mazo is the author of popular children’s books, including “No Quiero Ser Rey” (“I Don’t […]
Classes were canceled after a natural gas leak in a laboratory this morning led to students and staff at Woodstock High School being evacuated from the building. The evacuation was a “precautionary measure,” Assistant Superintendent George Oslovich wrote in an email sent to parents and guardians at 11:27 a.m. today. At around 12:45 p.m., as […]
District officials say they won’t make mono- and dual-language schools Woodstock School District 200 will consider ways to close Dean Street Elementary School, but officials won’t move forward with a plan to separate schools by language program. School board members asked administrators for a rundown of how they might shutter Dean if the board approves […]
Concerns about potential segregation and the loss of a neighborhood school continued to dominate discussions at a community forum hosted by Woodstock School District 200 Sept. 20. The meeting at Woodstock High School was the last in a series of sessions held on a proposal which includes closing Dean Street Elementary School and creating separate […]
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