Homewood-Flossmoor High School science teacher Stephen Banasiak has been nominated for the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching of Science and Mathematics. Through his classes, the teacher gives students an understanding of scientific principles through a hands-on approach.
Author: Marilyn Thomas
PopUp Science spreading around the globe
The Homewood Science Center started its free PopUp Science program in 2016 as a way to share science concepts with the community. Now the ideas behind PopUp Science are being learned by science enthusiasts around the world, thanks to the Homewood Science Center’s membership in the STEM Learning Ecosystem,[Read More…]
Parker students ready to represent Illinois at national history competition
Five Parker Junior High students will be dramatizing the story of the Black Panther Party when they represent Illinois in the junior high division at the National History Day competition June 10 at the University of Maryland. A campaign is on now to help fund the students’ trip to[Read More…]
H-F reduces arts center costs as it re-bids project
The District 233 Finance Committee and Homewood-Flossmoor High School administrators hope a list of cuts to the proposed arts center wing will bring costs within an acceptable range. Two new spaces will be built onto the South Building and interior spaces will be remodeled for the new MVP (Music,[Read More…]
Rev. Jesse Jackson urges H-F students to move away from anger over racial incident
Rev. Jesse Jackson listens as sophomore Aniya Askew, left, asks her question during a student assembly Tuesday at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. (Provided photo) It’s been more than a week since four Homewood-Flossmoor High School students posted a racist video on social media. Feeling hurt and angry about it is understandable, but students[Read More…]
Administrators try to answer student concerns through H-F assembly
After the flare-up from the weekend’s blackface postings by Homewood-Flossmoor High School students, Superintendent Von Mansfield and Principal Jerry Lee Anderson gave the student body a chance to ask them questions. Without a space large enough to accommodate all 2,800 students, the solution was to broadcast throughout the day Wednesday,[Read More…]
H-F students walk out of classes over blackface incident
The rains broke long enough for about 1,000 Homewood-Flossmoor High School students to march in protest outside the school campus around noon Tuesday, to make their voices heard about a recent incident that has inflamed the community.
Tree plantings help school children celebrate Arbor Day
Friday’s pleasant temperatures and beautiful blue sky made it the perfect day to mark Arbor Day, the annual celebration of trees. Students at Willow and James Hart Schools in Homewood and Parker Junior High in Flossmoor took to the outdoors to help public works crews plant new trees.
H-F baseball players bring positive message to young students
Willow students in teacher Mattie Walsh’s class were excited to have H-F Varsity Baseball Coach John McCarthy and players Jacob Schroeder, Tyler Schlaffer, Chad Readey, Xavier Frazier and John Pohrte sit with them for nearly 30 minutes reading stories that helped reinforce anti-bullying and kindness messages, while promoting the value of reading.[Read More…]
Write-in candidate ready to join Homewood Library’s board
Nancy Gildart is joining the Homewood Public Library board of trustees after winning a two-year term as a write-in candidate. Gildart, who has lived in Homewood more than 27 years, said she put her name forward in 2017 as a resident interested in a vacant seat on the board, but wasn’t[Read More…]
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