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Teachers tour L-W North
For nearly two years, Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 teachers
have monitored the construction of Lincoln-Way North from afar.
On Monday, May 5, they had an opportunity to tour the inside for the first time.
“It’s beautiful,” said Courtney Hansen,
a Lincoln-Way Central teacher who will transfer to Lincoln-Way North in the fall
to teach science.
“We love it,” agreed science teacher Jillian Neilsson who also will
transfer to Lincoln-Way North when it opens in August. |
Lincoln-Way East
Principal Mark Gardner, who will join them as Lincoln-Way North’s principal, began taking
teachers on a tour of the school this month. So far,
he’s taken three small groups through the school.
“It’s time for them to start thinking about how their rooms are going
to be set up,” he said.
The teachers entered the building wearing hard hats and wound their way through
the 418,000-square-foot building. They saw everything from the auditorium and
cafeteria to the library and individual classrooms.
“Look at all the table space we have,” Family and Consumer Science
teacher Teri Giobbia told her colleagues as they peered in to one of the classrooms. “This
is going to be great.”
The school is being built with funds from a $225 million referendum approved
by voters in March 2006. The referendum also is financing construction of a fourth
school –Lincoln-Way West –at Gougar and Spencer roads in New Lenox.
That school is slated to open in August 2009.
Administrators plan to invite the community in to see both schools before they
open to students. Lincoln-Way North’s dedication ceremony is scheduled
for Aug. 3. Lincoln-Way West’s dedication ceremony will be held a year
later in the fall of 2009.
They expect the community to react as strongly as the teachers who saw it for
the first time on Monday.
“I’m in love with that building,” one teacher told Gardner
after completing the tour Monday afternoon. “It’s just beautiful.”
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