Westchester Public School Teachers
receive
The Larry Stilgebauer Award of Excellence

The North Cook Intermediate Service Center with assistance from the Suburban Cook County Learning Technology Center hosted the 21st annual Role of Technology in Education Conference at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois.

West 40 Intermediate Service Center No.2 announced that the Technologists of the Intermediate Service Centers, Learning Technology Centers, and Regional Offices of Education in the seven counties surrounding Chicago selected two teams from Westchester Public Schools, District 92½, to receive Certificate of Merit Awards for their use of technology with students.



Teachers Barbara Lappe and Lisa Weber each received a Certificate of Merit
at the Role of Technology in Education Conference.

Barbara Lappe received recognition for her first grade project on spiders. The children viewed a live spider under the electronic microscope. They then drew the spider using the tools in KidPix. The learning product can be viewed on Westchester Primary School's First Grade website.

 

Lisa Weber and Anna Klamik received recognition for a fourth grade reading and social studies project: Traveling Through Time. As a culminating project to a literature unit on George Washington's Sock's, the students researched historically significant events. Using the information obtained from the Internet, they wrote fictionalized stories about the events. Some of the events included: the day man stepped on the moon, the Wright Brother's first flight at Kitty Hawk, and sailing on the Mayflower. The students downloaded relevant pictures from the Internet and inserted them into KidPix. The stories were presented to the class while the pictures were projected onto the large screen in a slide show.

Gretchen Alexander, Executive Director of West 40, presented the Certificates of Merit to Barbara Lappe, Lisa Weber, and Anna Klamik.

(left to right) Barbara Lamphere, Principal of Westchester Primary School; Lisa Weber, fourth grade teacher, Anna Klamik, Educational Technologist; Barbara Lappe, first grade teacher; Mary Leidigh, Principal of Westchester Intermediate School; and Lynn Novak, Director of Curriculum for District 92½.

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