District 155 hosted mock interviews at Crystal Lake Central on December 4, 2019 and at Prairie Ridge High School on December 5, 2019. Mark Rzepecki’s students in the Language Academy and Christine Graham’s speech class participated in the event at Central, while Steve Karlblom’s students in the work program took part at Prairie Ridge. 

Dan Badgley, a teacher at Crystal Lake Central High School, is the Star 105.5 and Home State Bank Teacher of the Month for December. He won the award after a parent of a current student nominated him. 

District 155 is excited to launch Workforce Wednesday with Susan Powalowski, a 2007 Cary-Grove graduate who now works as a Search Automation Specialist at Google in Chicago, IL. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2011, Powalowski began her career at Google in June of 2014.

J. Arizaga was one of five 11th graders in the state whose artwork was selected for the Illinois Art Education Association’s Student Art Show. Arizaga created a digital illustration which was displayed at the fall conference in St. Charles in November. It’s also featured on the ILAEA website.