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Homewood resident Annie Lawrence took center stage at the Illinois School Counselor Association’s (ISCA) annual meeting Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Westin Chicago Northwest in Itasca. Lawrence, who is a school counselor at Victor J. Andrew High School in Tinley Park, addressed a packed room with her colleague Kim Bartos about the benefits counselors can realize from sharing ideas on a regular basis to build community. “We signed up to hear speakers on this topic last year, but they didn’t show, and we ended up fielding most of the questions. So this year we decided to do it ourselves,” Lawrence said. ISCA is a 2100-member professional association that advocates for and supports school counselors in Illinois. (Karen Torme Olson/H-F Chronicle)
(Karen Torme Olson/H-F Chronicle)

Homewood resident Annie Lawrence took center stage at the Illinois School Counselor Association’s (ISCA) annual meeting Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Westin Chicago Northwest in Itasca.

Lawrence, who is a school counselor at Victor J. Andrew High School in Tinley Park, addressed a packed room with her colleague Kim Bartos about the benefits counselors can realize from sharing ideas on a regular basis to build community.

“We signed up to hear…

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Karen Torme Olson is an award-winning journalist, author, teacher, and recently retired secondary school counselor. For the last four decades, she has crafted stories and photos for numerous publishing outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Google, Stars and Stripes, Frommer’s Travel Guides, and most recently the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle. She received her doctoral degree in Administration and Supervision from Loyola University Chicago in 2006 and subsequently discovered that her most rewarding writing assignments involved crafting letters of recommendation for the hundreds of talented students who sought her counsel at Homewood Flossmoor High School over the last 19 years. She is mom to three sons and grandma to one grandson. She lives in Olympia Fields with her husband Randy Weissman, two spoiled rescue dogs, and two imperious cats.

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