Escape room experiences are a big trend today. They call upon teamwork, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking to escape a locked room. Best described as a hand-held escape room experience, Breakout Boxes are in use at Hawthorne School thanks to Read More …
The spark of mutual love and admiration is evident between the mother/daughter duo of Catherine Prange and Betsy Prange as soon as you see them together. Both are recipients of Student Excellence Foundation grants: Mrs. Prange received hers in FY16 Read More …
Many thanks to all the businesses that participated by donating on Shop & Dine Saturday, August 23! WARRENVILLE: Heidi’s Salon – 20% Chipotle (4-7pm) – 50% Potbelly (11-2pm) – 25% Sweet Potato Café – 15% WHEATON: Bella Roba Carlson’s (all) Cozymel’s Read More …
The NEW 200 Foundation awarded $1,050 to support robotics education at the middle school level across the district. The $1,050 will fund the purchase of replacement VEX Robotics kits, which will be used in the courses and shared among the schools.
As the capstone activity for the District 200 Entrepreneurship course, 170 8th grade students participated in the 2014 Spring Entrepreneurship Expo held at the Illinois Institute of Technology- Rice Campus this week. Students from the four middle schools presented their Read More …
NEW200 (Network for Educational Excellence in Wheaton-Warrenville) Foundation is excited to announce the Distinguished Teacher Awards for this school year. Awards were given out on May 14 at the Board of Education meeting. We had many excellent applicants and it Read More …
This has been a successful year for the NEW 200 Foundation, the education support foundation for all District 200 Wheaton-Warrenville schools. We received a $6,000 grant from Boeing’s Global Corporate Citizenship program to fund science and technology training. We awarded $2,500 in grants directly to classrooms around the district. And more… Read More …
Community Unit School District 200 is in talks with four other local school districts to create and share digital resources and courses, starting as early as next year, MySuburbanLife.com reports. Read More …
Get involved, and support technology and innovation in District 200 classrooms by making a one-time or recurring monthly donation to the NEW 200 Foundation online.
Each year, the NEW 200 Foundation honors one teacher from CUSD 200’s elementary, middle and high school levels who has put forth extra effort to enrich the educational experiences of District 200 students. This year’s honorees are: Deanna Bero, 2nd grade teacher, Lincoln Elementary School; Heidi Galassi, 7th grade math teacher, Edison Middle School; and Jon Nowortya, music teacher and marching band coach, Wheaton North High School. Read More …