9/23/26 Elementary & Middle School Student of the Week – Desean Davis
September 28, 2026
By Janet Dovidio news@thewoodstockindependent.com Madeleine Maltese has taught fifth grade at Greenwood Elementary School since she joined District 200 six years ago. This year, an Impact Grant funded supplies for helping her students prepare for the transition to middle school. “By early spring, students naturally begin to ask questions about middle school,” she said. “The […]
Special buddies are helping second-grade students of teacher Courtney Fisher to learn positive behaviors. “Best Buddies is a program created by The Good Human Project, which creates resources to engage students and encourage them to use positive behaviors,” Fisher said. An Impact Grant from District 200 Education Foundation funded the purchase of six of the […]
Greenwood Elementary School teacher Julie Zay felt there was a need for a special bench at her school. “I applied for a 2023-2024 D200 Education Foundation Impact Grant for a Buddy Bench at Greenwood, which would provide our D-200 students, families, and the wider community a place to sit and refuel and provide a time […]
Greenwood Elementary School students got a lesson from an author who told them about more than just the basics of schooling. Pre-K teacher Julie Zay used an Impact Grant from the D200 Education Foundation to invite author Michelle Schaub to speak to her own students and the entire student body. Schaub, an award-winning author from […]
Greenwood Elementary School says goodbye to two teachers with a combined 51 years with Woodstock School District 200. Marla Cherry retires after 26 years with D-200, all of them at Greenwood Elementary as a teacher of third, fourth and fifth grades. She previously taught at Hillside District 93 and Harrison School District 36. Cherry earned […]
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