Illinois School Report Card - 2011
District 62 students consistently perform at or above the state average in science and writing. Reading scores are consistently above the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) target of 77.5% meeting or exceeding standards, and above the state average. Students in grades 3, 5, 6, and 8 made gains from 2010 to 2011. Scores in grades 4 and 7 remained consistent. Hard copies are available in each school office.
The 2012 Terrace Spring Concert, This is America! was hit! The 4th and 5th grade students put on an excellent performance with a little help from their music teacher, Ms. Wuestenfeld. The program was dedicated to American Veterans and armed forces for their heroism and love for our country. Students demonstrated their talents with such songs as This is America, Livin' in the Heart of America, the Star-Spangled Banner, You're a Grand Old Flag, You Are Our Heroes, Mighty United, and Lights of Freedom. There was singing, dancing, and recorder...OH MY! The students enjoyed learning the meaning of their songs and were able to convey their understanding to the audience through their performance. Congratulations Terrace 4th and 5th graders for another great show
Terrace School D62 Gallery Artist – Claudia Romanowski, a 4th grader, at Terrace Elementary was honored on Monday, March 19th at the monthly board meeting. Her artwork was chosen to represent Terrace School for the 2011- 2012 school year. Claudia is an exceptional artist who loves to draw, paint, and create patterns. Her artwork will be on display at the D62 Gallery outside of the board room at Forest School for two years. Then it will return to Terrace to hang in a place of honor until she graduates from 8th grade. The framed artwork will be presented at her 8th Grade graduation. Congratulations to Claudia and her family!
Concert Sets Holiday Tone – Jingle bells, hand-held instruments, glockenspiels, and chickens were the finishing touches on the annual Terrace Elementary winter concert directed by Mary Wuestenfeld. Almost 300 kindergarten through fifth grade students introduced, narrated, and performed songs of the season for parents, grandparents, as well as Terrace staff. Songs ranged from traditional songs such as "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" to country tunes such as "Grandma's Chicken Soup."
Terrace students now have the opportunity to watch short, curriculum-based videos in the classroom. This school year, Brain Pop Jr. was introduced in many classrooms at Terrace Elementary with the help and support of the District 62 Foundation. Last spring, a few Terrace teachers wrote a grant to the District 62 Foundation to get web access to Brain Pop Jr. At the end of September, Terrace was granted access to this award winning website. Learn more...
Terrace Principal Earns Doctorate
The School District 62 Board of Education recently honored Terrace principal Bradley J. Stein for earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Stein holds a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Roosevelt University and a bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University.
Dr. Stein began his administrative career with School District 62 as the assistant principal of Algonquin Middle School in 2006. He was appointed principal of Terrace Elementary School in 2009. Prior to coming to District 62, Stein taught fifth grade at Thomas A. Edison School in District 69. In 2003 he won a National Education Association (NEA) Innovative Grant for a technology-immersion program that constituted a yearlong research-based project and culminated in an iMovie presentation by his students. Dr. Stein began his teaching career in 2000 as a Summer School Teacher and was later hired as a Permanent Substitute Teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest School District 90.
Community Consolidated School District 62 educates over 4,700 students in eleven K-8 schools. 773 certified and support staff work together to educate the district’s children.
The Terrace School Parent Teacher Council (PTC) celebrated the diversity in the Des Plaines community and helped students gain a more global view by hosting its first International Night. “Students and parents were able to participate and understand what makes all of us unique,” stated Terrace parent Lilia Ramirez, who organized the event. “It was quite a family event.”
The fun night with an international flair offered a natural way to encourage participation from parents of all backgrounds. Families or community groups worked together to create a variety of booths to visit, each with pictures, artifacts and snacks from a specific countries. Participants had their travel passport stamped as they visit each "country". A parade of traditional costumes and performances of songs and dances were the highlight of the evening.
Parent Night - Tuesday, September 7, 2010
At Terrace, parents have the opportunity to help out in classrooms and with special events. Many parents are members of the PTC and support various activities throughout the school year.
The students at Terrace Spring Concert with Ms. Mary Wuestenfeld, Music/Drama Teacher.
District 62 Schools Listed to 2009 Illinois Honor Roll
As students and teachers prepare to take the 2010 Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), two District 62 schools received news from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) that they made the Illinois Honor Roll for continued academic progress.
“We are very proud of the students and staff of our 2009 Illinois Honor Roll schools,” announced Dr. Jane L. Westerhold, Superintendent of Schools. “We celebrate their success and share this accomplishment with our students, parents and community partners.”
Plainfield Elementary School received a Spotlight Schools Award. Spotlight Schools Award winners are high poverty schools where high academic performance is closing the "achievement gap." Located throughout the state in urban, suburban, and rural locations, 425 Spotlight Schools earned honors in this year. They exhibit achievements that are contrary to the conventional wisdom that test scores will reflect demographics despite local efforts.
At least half the students are from low-income families in 2009.
At least 60 percent of students must have met or exceeded standards in both reading and mathematics in 2009.
At least 50 percent of students met or exceeded standards in both reading and mathematics in the two previous years; 2008 and 2007.
Schools must have made Adequate Yearly Progress in the two previous years as required by No Child Left Behind.
Terrace Elementary School earned an Academic Excellence School Award. Academic Excellence Awards recognize 438 schools that have sustained very high academic performance over the past three years. Some of these schools often receive national recognitions placing them among the nation's most outstanding. The number of Academic Excellence awards more than doubled since 2007. Research is not yet available to explain this dramatic increase, especially in middle schools.
In these elementary schools, at least 90% of students met or exceeded state standards both in reading and in mathematics for at least 3 consecutive years. All Academic Excellence schools achieved Adequate Yearly Progress for the past two years.
ArborDay
National Arbor Day was celebrated across the country on Friday, April 30, 2010. The City of Des Plaines will mark the occasion with a tree planting ceremony at 9:30 AM, Friday, April 30, 2010, at Terrace Elementary School, 735 S. Westgate Road. Mayor Martin J. Moylan will read the City’s Arbor Day proclamation to students and other ceremony attendees before planting a tree on school grounds. Lurvey’s Garden Center of Des Plaines has generously agreed to donate the tree for this year’s ceremony.
Arbor Day serves as an opportunity to plant trees on reflect on their value. Trees reduce erosion, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife. According to the USDA Forest Service, healthy, mature trees add an average of 10 percent to a property's value. And The Arbor Day Foundation states, "Trees can be a stimulus to economic development, attracting new business and tourism. Commercial retail areas are more attractive to shoppers, apartments rent more quickly, tenants stay longer, and space in a wooded setting is more valuable to sell or rent.”
For twenty-two years, Des Plaines has been recognized as a Tree City. To qualify for annual Tree City designation, Des Plaines must meet standards established by The Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters. These standards ensure that every qualifying community has a viable tree management plan and program.
Terrace Students Come to America
The sounds of the ocean, a view of the Statue of Liberty, a promise of a new land, and a bevy of stations awaited Terrace fifth graders as they took a simulated journey to Ellis Island. The simulation, which included eight stations, was organized by Jennifer Sharko and several Terrace teachers. Parent volunteers also manned many of the stations. As students boarded the “ship,” they found out whether they were on the upper deck (the stage) or in the hold. Once they landed in America, costumed students carrying their luggage waited in line to have their passports and health checked. A few experienced the frustration and anxiety of being held while their papers were checked or being sent to the back of a line for insufficient information. Several were greeted by officials, but could not speak the “language".
Kimberly Roth's First Graders Welcome Mystery Readers Friday afternoon Mystery Reader is a new program this year for the first grade classes at Terrace School in Des Plaines. The program is designed to promote literacy by inviting working professionals, community leaders, and parents to visit the classes and read a story to the children. The readers supply four clues about their profession early in the week and the children try to guess who is coming to read.
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