Tuesday, February 5, 2013
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, Dr. Teresa Gibson her thoughts as part of the Character in the Community program.
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Friday, January 18, 2013
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, students share thoughts on the character attributes at JTHS.
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
School district chooses to purchase its own bonds.
There were two main reasons the Joliet Township High School district 204 Board of Education members approved investing nearly $950,000 in their working cash fund by purchasing bonds. Called a working cash bond purchase, the move will keep the tax rate steady and they wanted to have access to the money that is available to them under the tax cap. Board members approved the move on Tuesday night. “If they don’t issue the bonds, they will lose it,” Elizabeth Hennessy, William Blair and Company said at the meeting in November when the issue was first presented to board members. Hennessy gave a presentation to board members at the November board meeting. At the heart of the move is simply an accounting move. The remaining $947,000 that is part …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, students share their thoughts on the seven character attributes.
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, students share their thoughts on the seven character attributes.
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Next year, all freshmen and sophomores will have laptops as will select upperclassmen.
Joliet Township High School District 204 Officials have a goal in mind. By the school year 2014-2015, all the students at the two campuses will have laptops. Currently, the members of the freshmen class at both Joliet West High School and Joliet Central High School operate on laptops. In fact, when implementing the next step of the laptop program - also known as the 1:1 initiative - the machines that are currently used by freshmen students will continue to be used by freshmen. "We're going to leave the devices that we currently have with the freshmen with the next class of freshmen," Karen Harkin, Director of Information Technology Services at Joliet Township High School said. The curriculum installed on the laptops is already freshmen …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, McCarthy shares her thoughts on the character attributes at JTHS.
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, McCarthy shares her thoughts on the character attributes at JTHS.
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
As part of Patch's partnership with Joliet Township High School, Evans shares his thoughts on one of the character attributes at JTHS.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
On Nov. 4, Patch announced the launch of its partnership with Joliet Township High School to promote their Character in Community program. Patch will show two videos per week of community members, students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. Each will speak to students about one of the character attributes or will encourage kids to stay the course in high school. Want to add a video to our project? Contact Local Editor Dawn Aulet by email or by calling 815-531-7412. Get news where you live. Sign up for the Joliet, Channahon-Minooka, Plainfield or Shorewood newsletters.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Community members are invited to tell their stories as a way of encouraging students to embrace seven character attributes.
As any student will tell you, high school can be hard, and made harder still when bullying becomes an issue. In these days of cell phones, Facebook pages and laptop computers, bullying can transcend name-calling and after-school fights that most parents remember. Joliet Township High School District 204 has made a concerted effort to counter student-on-student attacks by teaching seven character attributes: respect, integrity, confidence, responsibility, compassion, perseverance and tolerance. "This program is unique to Joliet Township High School," said Kristine Schlismann, JTHS community development director. "It's really what our group of stakeholders determined to be our core values." Joliet West High School and Joliet Central High …
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