The Cissna Park Education Foundation has announced that 2 privately funded scholarships are available for the 2014 graduating class; the Illinois Grain and Seed Equipment Scholarship and the Ristow – Ziegenhorn Scholarship. The Illinois Grain and Seed Equipment Scholarship is being funded by IGSE of Cissna Park. This $600 scholarship is available to any 2014 […]
Dave Ramsey Personal Finance curriculum
Family and Consumer Sciences classroom received the latest edition of Dave Ramsey’s Foundations in Personal Finances program geared toward High School students. The new curriculum was funded by the Cissna Park Education Foundation. Every senior at Cissna Park High School is required to pass Consumer Economics, and the Dave Ramsey Personal Finance program is a […]
Smart Boards Arrive!
The CPEF has purchased 7 Interactive whiteboards, commonly called “smart boards” for the school system. These boards are a 3′ by 4′ wall board that displays to the students what is on the classroom computer. The teacher and students can then interact with the computer by touching the board to select items, move images, and […]
Thrivent Choice Dollars designee
Thrivent Financial for Lutheran members can now designate the Cissna Park Education Foundation as the recipient of the members “Choice Dollars”. Just call Thrivent at (800) 847-4836 and direct your Choice Dollars to the Cissna Park Education Foundation OR Log into Thrivent.com/choicedollars and select the Cissna Park Education Foundation as your choice Dollars Recipient. – […]
Class of 1963 makes donation
During the Cissna Park High School Alumni Banquet held Friday afternoon at Creekside Prairie, the class of 1963 presented a check to the Cissna Park Education Foundation. Over $3,300 was raised by the class in support of the funding the foundation provides to teacher & classrooms in the School system. Pictured; Todd Kaeb, left, Larry […]
Student Response System added in HS science
The Cissna Park Education foundation Mini Grant program allowed for the purchase of a Student Response System in the high school science department. The students have enjoyed having a new “toy” to play with in class, and the instructor Brad Wacker has enjoyed having anew tool to monitor student understanding. The iClicker student response system […]
Summer School learns about wind
During summer school at Cissna Park Elementary School a total of 15 students, ranging in ages from 6 to twelve, were able to learn about wind with a windmill kit that was purchased through the gracious donation of funds from the Education Society. The windmill kit was used to explore the different uses of wind and […]
5th Grade Digital Projector
Since the winter break, the fifth graders and Mrs. Kollmann have been using a Dell 1210S projector. This projector Projector displays graphics and text in bright, high-contrast detail and has been incorporated with an Interwriter II Mobi to enhance note taking in science, diagramming sentences in English, building background information for stories in reading and […]
2nd Grade Learning Tools
Mrs. Denault’s second grade class was awarded a Classroom Mini Grant and purchased a Reader’s Theater Folk Tale set, a class pack of Judy Clocks, big magnetic money, and a subscription to the Daily Café website.
1st Grade Listening Center
The first grade class purchased a listening center with their 2012 Fall mini Grant. The listening center headphones allow multiple students to listen to the same audio without disturbing the rest of the class room. So far, the CD player has been used to listen to songs, stories, and poems as a class. It is […]
