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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

New Trier Board Elects New Officers

New board members will take a turn in the president and vice president seats. Superintendent Linda Yonke thanks outgoing officers for their service.

There has been a changing of the guard for the New Trier Township High School District 203 school board. The board unanimously chose board member Alan Dolinko as the new president and Mac Harris as the new vice president. Lou Anne Kelly, the secretary to Superintendent Linda Yonke, will continue to serve as the school board secretary. Yonke thanked the outgoing officers, former Vice President Carol Ducommon and former President John Myefski for their service. Ducommon has served three terms as a board officer since Yonke has been superintendent, she said. Earlier: New Board Members Elected When it comes to being president, Yonke said, the duties go beyond what happens at meetings. "It's doing everything in between," she said. Dolinko …

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

New Trier to Move Forward with Expansion of iPads

Ringing in at $375,000, the district plans to supply about 600 iPads to students for next year.

About 600 students at New Trier High School will be using iPads in 15 different classes next year, under an expansion of the iPad pilot program that the school used this year. The  classes were chosen from more than 35 proposals made by teachers, said Chris Johnson, New Trier’s director of technology. “These 15 proposals each represent important and distinct innovations [that] we need to continue to explore and that we believe will positively impact students,” Johnson in a memo to the school board. The proposals involve classes at all levels and across subject areas at the school, which has campuses in Northfield and Winnetka. Earlier: New Trier Plans iPad Project While the classes that will use iPads will have a total of about 720 …

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Chi-an Chang

9:07 am on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Peter Acs wrote on Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch's Facebook page and said iPads would be best in study hall, or banned from class. www.facebook.com/wilmettepatch   more ›

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