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- River Forest schools submits
technology plan to state
- • Details still being worked out. District hires
new Director of Teaching and Learning.
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- By John Yoo
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- Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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- After a year of committee work, the River Forest
School board unanimously approved the submission of its
Technology Plan to the state board of education Monday
night. The comprehensive 3-year-long plan aims to
implement better technology equipment in the district
schools, as well as train the educational staff to be
more efficient in the use of the equipment.
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- District 90 Superintendent Marlene Kamm noted that
the submittal to the state does not finalize the details
of the plan, as future amendments can still be added.
Education Committee chairperson Kristen Coe said the
Technolgy Plan is taking concrete shape and will be
discussed again extensively at the board meeting in June.
Kamm also noted that professionals are looking for
creative financial strategies to finance the technology
plan. Those financial strategies, she said, are being
studied by Technology Committee member Mark Coe, and will
be brought before the full board in July.
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- The board also welcomed Dr. Bonnie Boyer to the
school district. Boyer, previously the principal of East
Elementary School in Lake Bluff, will be the district's
new Director of Teaching and Learning beginning July 1.
Boyer began her career as a speech pathologist and
gradually moved into a 25 year education career.
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- "The reason that I came to this board is because I
wanted to have a wide influence on things- a bigger view
on things," Boyer said Monday. "And I also love helping
kids as well as working with adults."
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- Other issues discussed by the board include the 125th
River Forest Anniversary celebration, Youth Network
Council Meeting and an error found in the Federal
District of Special Education (FDSE) budget.
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- • A short film on the history of River Forest by
students from district schools will be part of the
official 125th anniversary at Dominican University on
June 17th, 5:30 to 8 p.m.
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- • The Youth Network Council, chaired by
Kelly Welindt, showed a short movie on "bullying in
school" to classes in district schools. Welind, who said
the film will also be shown to Roosevelt sixth-graders in
the future, said it is an attempt to make parents more
aware of the problem as well as the solution.
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- • Kamm said two of the three River Forest
schools did not report sufficient data to the state,
which ffected the allocation of state funding to the
district. She said the corrections will take place
soon and the district is expecting the correct allocation
starting September.
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- • The Board of Education meeting started
with the recognition of Roosevelt School's Seventh-Grade
Girls' Volleyball Team. The team was co-champion of the
West Suburban Seven Conference, and won all 15 games it
played at the Fenwick Volleyball Invitational.
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- "There's more than just volleyball that these girls
learn in volleyball," said coach Kate Rehfield. "They
learn to keep positive attitudes all the time in life,
even when they are down."
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