Winnetka Public Schools’ Art Treasures: “Bird Girl” and WPA Mural
Gazette Article by: Becky Hurley and Susan Whitcomb
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2010
Sometime in the 1950s, Lake Forest sculptor Sylvia Shaw Judson donated the original plaster model of one of her sculptures to Crow Island School. It sat in the corner of the art room watching children create masterpieces for more than 40 years. A bronze cast of the statue was featured on the cover of a retrospective of Judson’s work in 1967 and identified as “Bird Girl.”
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=273 · Jul 27, 13:12
How Progressive Education Came to Winnetka
Gazette Article by: Susan Whitcomb
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2009
Colonel Francis Parker collaborated with the writer, philosopher and education reformer John Dewey, who founded the University of Chicago Lab School. Dewey believed in learning that was both active and experiential. Children came to school to do things: learning arithmetic would come from measuring ingredients in cooking or calculating the time it would take to get from one place to another by mule.
One of the students exposed to Parker’s new model of education was Carleton Washburne.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=244 · Aug 20, 09:00
Winnetka Public Schools: 150 Years
Gazette: Spring/Summer 2009
In recognition of the 150th Anniversary of District 36
A Brief Chronology of Winnetka Public Schools
1859
Winnetka’s first public school is organized as District #2, with a one-room schoolhouse at Maple and Elm streets…
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=248 · Jun 28, 20:33
Schmidt-Burnham Log House Brings Curriculum to Life
Gazette Article by Sidney Dechovitz
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2007
Our fourth grade students at Crow Island investigate the story of the United States of America as “A Nation of Immigrants.” Through family history projects of various types, children learn the story of immigration as they begin to understand their own identities…
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=231 · Jan 18, 21:43
Pioneer Past Still Present in Winnetka Schools
Gazette Article by: Bean Carroll
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2000
Located on the lower level of Crow Island School is a room that is held fast in the memories of many Winnetka residents, young and old. If asked to recall their most memorable experience from their days in the Winnetka Public Schools, almost everyone will answer that it was the time he or she spent in the Pioneer Room during third grade.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=214 · Jan 3, 18:07
Winnetka Community Nursery School
Gazette Article by: Marsha Engle-Reinecke
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 1999
The year was 1943, and Winnetka women – like their counterparts throughout the U.S. – were eager to participate in the war effort. Since domestic help was nearly impossible to obtain, childcare was a pressing issue.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=208 · Dec 27, 20:27
The Pioneer Room
Gazette Article by: Bean Carroll
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring/Summer 2000
Located on the lower level of Crow Island School is a room that is held fast in the memories of many Winnetka residents, young and old. If asked to recall their most memorable experience from their days in the Winnetka Public Schools, almost everyone will answer that it was the time he or she spent in the Pioneer Room during third grade.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=196 · Dec 26, 20:25
"J" is for Jungle Gym
_Gazette Article Excerpted from a recent University of Chicago Master’s paper by Sheila Duran _
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 1997
Equipment suitable for playgrounds, however, remained uncommon in the early part of this century. A unique solution presented itself to Washburne in 1920, when school board member Edward Yeomans hosted a small dinner party at his home with Washburne, North Shore Country Day School Headmaster Perry Dunlap Smith, a Winnetka resident named Theodore Hinton, and their spouses as guests.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=178 · Dec 25, 10:16
Winnetka Public School Nursery
Gazette Article by: Mary Bell
Appeared in the Gazette: Winter 1999
In 1926, when Henry Ford was still making parts for the Model T and Charles Lindbergh had yet to fly solo across the Atlantic, two educational pioneers, Dr. Carleton W. Washbume, superintendent of the Winnetka Public Schools, and Rose Alschuler, a national leader in nursery school education, met to discuss the value of pre-primary education.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=158 · Dec 23, 12:47
Willow Wood Preschool
Gazette Article by: Kathy Handleman
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2000
In the late 1960s, much like today, a baby boom in full swing found parents of toddlers scrambling to get their children into area preschools. A group of mothers from Kenilworth Gardens frequently bemoaned the tight enrollments and, with little money but great enthusiasm, decided to start a preschool of their own. In 1967 the doors to Kenilworth Community Preschool opened to 25 students.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=154 · Dec 23, 12:33