Hello SEA Members, Well, it has been quite a school year! As we anticipate our hybrid students returning April 6th, there are a few messages that I would like to share with all of you. I cannot express how creative, hardworking and adaptable educators have been during the continuing pandemic. Each of you continue to … Read more A Word on the 4 Day Return
Dear Fellow SEA Members, Today, I sent the following email to the BOE to be read during public comments at this evening’s school board meeting. This email is in response to the recent survey sent out by the district asking students about their perceptions of white District 186 teachers. The District administration has yet to … Read more Acting SEA President’s public comments about the recent survey on student perceptions of white teachers
The Springfield Education Association announces the application availability of the SEA/Sue Handy Scholarship. The scholarship is open to District #186 students and the children of SEA members who are pursuing a career in public school teaching. The scholarship was instituted in honor of Sue Handy, a Springfield educator who taught at Butler Elementary for many … Read more Sue Handy Scholarship 2021: Deadline Extended to April 12
Author: Steven Spearie – State Journal Register Published: 4:51 p.m. CT January 17, 2021 Danielle Lewis, a second grade teacher at Hazel Dell Elementary School, said she signed up to teach in the hybrid model because she didn’t have any health conditions that would prevent her from being in-person with students. Lewis, who has taught in … Read more An ‘energizing week’ as teachers, students complete first week of hybrid learning
Author: Ben McKinney, Hybrid (In Person) 3rd Grade Teacher – SPS186 Publication: Illinois Times – January 14, 2021 I teach third grade at a school with a diverse student population in a neighborhood of working-class people. I have been in this school nearly a decade now, and I have come to know the businesses and … Read more BACK TO SCHOOL NOW?
Author: Steven Spearie – State Journal-Register Published at 4:23 pm January 11, 2021 Brian Daugherty has a desk calendar hanging on his wall at home that has counted the days he’s been away from his Jefferson Middle School special education students in a classroom because of the COVID-19 pandemic. By Tuesday, when Daugherty is set to … Read more District 186 readies itself for return of students to classrooms
Author: Steven Spearie State Journal-Register Published at 11:30 p.m. CT December 21, 2020 Springfield School District 186 board members said Monday they liked where a set of metrics governing the in-person return of students Jan. 12 is headed, but remained leery about a post-Christmas and New Year’s spike. Meanwhile, Superintendent Jennifer Gill will be sending a … Read more District 186 school board members hope ‘downward trend’ of metrics continues
COVID can’t deter Cops, Kids, and Christmas Author: Steven Spearie, State Journal Register Photographer: Justin Fowler Published 6:38 p.m. CT, December 17, 2020 It has been an admittedly tough year for Alissa Smith of Springfield. Smith lost her job because she had to quarantine, even though she tested negative for COVID-19. So seeing smiles on the … Read more Police get creative with Christmas giveaway at Fairview School
Author: Steven Spearie – State Journal Register Date: November 25, 2020 Corina Ousley said it was “a blessing” how she and her family got through bouts with COVID-19 this summer. There were for Ousley, a fifth-grade teacher at Dubois Elementary School, days of agony, including chronic fatigue and a precarious loss of taste and smell. … Read more After dealing with COVID-19, Springfield teachers find ‘blessings’ in life
By Steven Spearie The State Journal-Register Posted Aug 31, 2020 at 6:51 PM Tiffany Mathis acknowledged that parents are having to make tough decisions, especially since the School District 186 board of education voted to start with an all-remote model, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We knew there would be a huge need for … Read more As district takes ‘test run,’ working parents search alternative places for students