Hinckley

Este otoño, el distrito escolar Hinckley-Big Rock se unió al creciente movimiento “Phone Free Schools” Prohibieron los teléfonos celulares en su escuela secundaria e intermedia con la esperanza de que ayudaría a los estudiantes tanto como académicamente. ¿Cómo ha funcionado hasta ahora? Peter Medlin de WNIJ tiene más…

This fall, the Hinckley-Big Rock School District joined the growing “Phone Free Schools” movement. They banned cellphones at their high school and middle school hoping it would help students both socially and academically. How has it worked so far? WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has more…

A group of northern Illinois students put on their school’s first ever theatre production this fall. Hear the full journey from auditions through opening night. It’s on a new Teachers' Lounge, out now on WNIJ.org or wherever you get podcasts.

On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge Radio Show, it’s opening night for a group of students in their school’s first-ever theater production. That, a social studies teacher who also holds an elected office, and much more...

On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge Radio Show, a group of students in their school’s first-ever theater production. That, a music teacher using classical music to reflect on climate change, and much more!

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, Tracey teaches agriculture, woodworking, welding, horticulture and sometimes she needs to learn yet another skill to help one of her students, like building guitars."He literally starts laughing. He goes, either you're the best teacher ever, or you have no idea what you're doing! I'm just chuckling. I have a kid who has this need, I can reach the kids need by learning this new skill. I'm going to learn this new skill."Building her students’ confidence…and whatever else they want to build. It’s on a new Teachers' Lounge.

Varios distritos escolares de Illinois están prohibiendo los teléfonos móviles este año.“El 80% de todos los problemas de comportamiento que tenemos este año se relacionan con los celulares.”Por qué los líderes escolares dicen que los teléfonos móviles están causando graves problemas sociales y académicos y cómo se verán estas prohibiciones.

Several Illinois school districts are banning smartphones this year.“80% of all of the behavior issues that we have this year were cell phone related.”Why school leaders say smartphones are causing major social and academic issues & what these bans will actually look like.

Before they trotted the globe or dropped in on Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, the Harlem Globetrotters made their traveling debut in the small farming…