West Aurora School District

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast -- we all want to eat good food and we all want to live in a beautiful home. So, when you teach Food and interior design like Katey -- it’s not that hard to make the lessons feel relevant.

Students bring their voice to northern Illinois school boards."There're so many students who want to make change, and I just feel like they don't know where to start.”How can these students represent all students -- even the elementary schoolers? Learn more...

Thousands of schools across the country have installed solar panels over the past decade. Illinois has the 3rd-most "solar-powered" schools of any state. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has more on one northern Illinois district’s clean energy journey.

We’ve got a special episode this week. Remember a few months back when we heard from those valedictorians about what it was like graduating in the…