Winnetka Public Schools Foundation
Washburne Junior High School
"The Foundation helps us make the impossible become a reality! The support we receive from the Foundation enables us to provide terrific opportunities and programs for our students that otherwise wouldn't be available."
- Cathy Rosen, principal of Washburne School
Projects Funded by the Foundation:
Leadership and Team Building (Social Emotional Learning)
- Advisory consultant, Rachel Poliner, brought in to work with the Advisory Committee
- SEL committee work over the summers
- Do Your P’Art project in which Winnetka students work with students from a different Chicagoland setting around an art project
Artist in Residence
- John Leary- French chef working with French classes (adds cultural enrichment to academic environment)
- Latin Dancers- program for all Spanish students (adds a cultural kinesthetic activity to second language curriculum)
- Tom James- SS/LA project- worked with a team to help them use art to articulate and express interdisciplinary projects
- Thousand Waves- SEL assembly for all students
- Timuel Black Jr. – veteran civil rights worker spoke about his experiences in Chicago and the deep south
- Sidney S. Finkel- Holocaust survivor and speaker for all SS classes