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Schools Stories from October 5, 2017 (Change date)

Spaulding school rewards students for positive behavior

Spaulding School submission
Oct 06, 2017 1:25 pm - Spaulding School in Gurnee celebrated great student behavior recently with grade-level Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, or PBIS, celebrations. PBIS is a po...
Hoffman Estates High School's annual McTeacher's Night

Julie Travers
Oct 09, 2017 7:19 am - Hoffman Estates High School, in District 211, held its annual McTeacher's Night on Wednesday, October 4 at the Hoffman Estates McDonald's in Barrington Square. A McTeach...
Palatine High School students cook using military meals

Submitted by District 211
Oct 06, 2017 1:45 pm - Palatine students take on challenge to create fine dining using military meals
Register for Glenbard North STEM challenge for middle school students

Peg Mannion, Glenbard District 87
Oct 06, 2017 6:09 pm - Registration is under way for Glenbard North High School's first Middle School Engineering Challenge, which will be held on Friday, Nov. 10. This event is an opportunity...
Fremont students get a look at augmented reality

Oct 06, 2017 11:51 am - Submitted by Fremont School District 79 Fremont School District 79 students in Mundelein were among the first to beta test Google's newest product, augmented reality. Go...
U-46 celebrates National School Lunch Week Oct. 9-13

Elgin Area School District U-46
Oct 06, 2017 11:55 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 is launching Healthy Lifestyle and Wellness Contests for third- to 12th-graders to promote a holistic approach to wellness as schools pre...
Newsworthiness: The media must return to the roots of a free press

By Dean Bradshaw Stevenson High School teacher and student newspaper adviser
Oct 05, 2017 9:32 am - Newsworthiness too often comes down to ratings and sales. Ratings- and sales-driven coverage has led to more echo chambers of hyper-partisanism, fast food empty calorie ...
Credible information: Find and rely on trustworthy news sources

By Keith Carlson Naperville Central High School teacher and newspaper adviser
Oct 05, 2017 9:32 am - Searching for credible information seems harder than ever, and labels with malleable definitions like "fake news" don't help. It's no wonder so many of us are confused....
Watchdogs: The free press' most important role in our democracy

By Jason Block Prospect High School teacher and newspaper adviser
Oct 05, 2017 9:32 am - What is the only profession specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights? That is my favorite question to ask the students in my Journalistic Writing 1 course as I try t...
Bias: Know the difference between straight news and opinionated editorials

By Kari Botkin South Elgin High School teacher and newspaper adviser
Oct 05, 2017 9:32 am - It is impossible for a journalist to cover every angle, every viewpoint for any story. I advise the newspaper staff at a school of nearly 2,700 students. For any story ...

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