Celebration of National Blue Ribbon Awards-#Engage109

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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Today the United States Secretary of Education announced the award winning schools in the National Blue Ribbon award program. I am beyond proud of Alan B. Shepard Middle School and Walden Elementary School in Deerfield Public Schools District 109 for achieving this high honor!

In his weekly newsletter, Dr. Tony Smith, the Illinois State Superintendent listed the 16 Illinois schools who won – of the 329 schools in the United States, 16 hail from our state, 10 from our county and 2 from our district. It imagestruly takes a village and we are so proud of the efforts of the school communities, parents, business members, students, support staff, teachers, administrators and our Board of Education!

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Please take a few minutes to listen to Secretary King make the announcement in the video clip. We are grateful to him for his acknowledgement of all of the educational excellence, as well as his special shout out to the Walden School Girls/STEM Lunch N Learn program that emerged from the Superintendent’s Task Force on Middle Level Education and was organized and run by parents at Walden!

We are quite fortunate in Deerfield (most of Riverwoods and some of Highland Park, IL) to have parents and community members who value education. We are quite fortunate to have powerful partnerships with the police, fire, village, public works, park district, library, township, and all local governments. We are quite proud of the pride and engagement in our schools from our award winning teaching staff, amazing administrators, and visionary members of the Board of Education.

While the awards are bestowed upon two of our schools, the celebration and credit and excitement belongs to the entire school district community.

ENGAGE, INSPIRE, EMPOWER
ENGAGE, INSPIRE, EMPOWER

2 thoughts on “Celebration of National Blue Ribbon Awards-#Engage109

    • Greg,
      It’s pretty amazing and impressive we can celebrate excellence in our own community and in our backyard! We keep learning and growing from examples near and far.
      ML

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