What kind of celebration do you think we are having on Friday for lunch at IHS ?
Our Indy field of dreams!! Welcome to Indy baseball!!
So much fun tonight at our IPS and IMS 2nd and 6th grade Cultural Fair! Thanks to all our families who attended!
It's National Volunteer Week! A big thank you to all the volunteers who help our school community throughout the year. We value your time, your talents, your support. #iPride
IHS Top Chef Desserts class learned to make fondant covered cakes today!
IHS Iron Chef students made homemade pasta and beignets for a Disney Challenge today!
Thank you, Independence Today Magazine, for this great feature story on Luke's Eagle Scout project! #iPride
The 4th Grade Art Club recently completed their final project, which was a student-favorite activity. Students were given the opportunity to design their own personalized tumblers. Throughout the year, the class worked on various projects using a sublimation printing process to transfer their artwork to products using a heat press.
The City of Independence is hosting their annual Fishing Derby on Saturday, May 11 from 9-noon! See the flyer for more details.
E.B. had a hippity hoppity time visiting all the IPS classrooms today! 🐇🐇
Independence Local Schools invites families to participate in Indy Family First Night this Sunday. After 6 p.m., there will be no ILS activities so families can spend time together. It's also a homework-free weekend!
Independence Primary School Art Teacher Mike Gruber had all his students create their own version of the Solar Eclipse coming up on April 8. They used chalk to create the glowing eclipse and painted or constructed with paper a skyline silhouettes to craft a beautiful city scene.
Independence Local Schools invites families to participate in Indy Family First Night on Sunday, March 24. After 6 p.m., there will be no ILS activities so families can spend time together. It's also a homework-free weekend!
Over the past several years, our math department has been working within the existing schedule to add support for our advanced and gifted students. As our student needs are changing, our middle school is being responsive to those learning needs.
Our math teachers, Mr. Vanek, and Ms. Wargo (Gifted Coordinator), set out to understand where we were and how we can leverage our student data to improve where we can be. Our teachers met weekly to create a roadmap to explain math placement and help students and parents understand how best to support their student's learning.
This work is still in progress and growing. As teachers work through the process we are seeing the need to develop math courses that are advanced for the grade level; not just subject-level accelerated. We are impressed with the content knowledge, focus on student needs, and work ethic of this group of teachers. #DidYouKnowFridays
Bethany Majeski from the Cleveland Metroparks visited our IPS 3rd grade as part of the @CVCCWorks Career Speaker Series. She spoke about careers in science and brought critters for our students to see!
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center students came to IHS for an in-school field trip for the Iron Chef and desserts classes today!
The City of Independence's Youth Golf will be Tuesdays June 4-July 30! See the flyer for more details!
While we focus a great deal of resources on our student technology and infrastructure, our teachers have relied on the same iMac computers for the past 10 years. Our oldest teacher iMac is from 2009! Our iMacs were reaching end-of-life as determined by Apple not allowing them to update. Desktop computers also meant our teachers could only access technology from their desks.
Over the past two years we have worked to give teachers a modern and mobile technology platform. New MacBooks, Desktop monitor, and docking station allows any teacher to walk into any classroom and instruct; with just one cable.
The federal ESSER funding made available as a result of COVID was used to purchase student technology, making it possible to stay within our technology budget during our teacher device upgrades. This allowed us to consolidate a four-to-five year technology upgrade plan into two years.
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