Lake County Retired Teachers Association
IRTA Foundation Grant Winners
Upcoming Area 2 Representative Marti Swanson, Region 2 Director Dee Cavenaugh, Grant Winner Julie Fievet, and Principal Jean LeBlanc
Julie Fievet, Rockland Elementary School, Libertyville ($350.00)
Rockland Elementary students will be learning tinikling during their physical education classes for several weeks each year. Tinikling is a traditional Philippines folk dance using poles and music. Using both current and traditional music, students in p.e. classes will work in groups creating routines for this activity. In addition to promoting physical fitness, it also instills confidence in all children and exposes them to a different culture and to a different idea of dancing and can be done by all students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Two Student Council Officers, Membership Chair Jeanne Houle, Grant Winner Mrs. Jimmie Luster, Unit President Jodie Stewart, and upcoming Area 2 Representative Marti Swanson
Mrs. Jimmie Luster, Miguel Juarez Middle School,Waukegan ($200.00)
We are co-teachers on a mission to increase reading skills at Miguel Juarez Middle School. We started a literacy program last school year. This year our student council would like to provide tutoring and literacy training for the 1st graders in our feeder school.
Upcoming Area 2 Representative Marti Swanson, Region 2 Director Dee Cavenaugh, Principal/Grant Winner Guy Schumacher, and Student Council President Christina Reszel
Guy Schumacher, Butterfield School, Libertyville ($400.00)
With the purchase of a new digital video camera, the students at Butterfield School will create an anchor room to film daily announcements and events that would be shared with students and staff through the Butterfield Broadcast System, K.I.D.S. The opportunity to bring life long learning into an elementary school where students are provided an opportunity to write a script, run a film camera and present as though in a television studio is tremendously powerful, giving rise to a future Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, Dan Rather or Barbara Walters.
Membership Chair Jeanne Houle, Grant Winner Wendy Wiegers, Unit President Jodie Stewart, and upcoming Area 2 Representative Marti Swanson
Wendy Wiegers, Little Fort Elementary, Waukegan ($400.00)
With the grant money, Wendy will purchase material for costumes for the Broadway musical, The Wizard of Oz, which will be presented in the spring. Over one hundred first through fifth graders will be transformed into Dorothy and all of her friends (and enemies!) through costumes made by teachers and parents. The goal of the project is to create a love for musical theater as either a performer, stage crew member and as future audiences and stars of the musical theater stage.
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