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In the Media

• 1st/2nd grade teacher Scott Salk is profiled in the February 2012 issue of JUF News.

• The first and second graders in Mrs. Rapp’s class are studying penguins, and thanks to them, the Akiba-Schechter flag is flying over McMurdo Station in Antarctica! See the Hyde Park Herald’s coverage.

• Akiba-Schechter teachers and parents get a stop sign put at a previously dangerous intersection a block from the school. The Hyde Park Herald reports.

• 1st/2nd grade teacher Scott Salk wins the Educator of the Year Award from the Associated Talmud Torahs. Read the Hyde Park Herald’s coverage.

• Kindergarten Teacher Mara Katz, as well as 1st/2nd grade teachers Jackie Rapp and Scott Salk give tips on how to ease the transition from Kindergarten to First Grade in the fall 2011 issue of Parent-to-Parent Magazine.

• Class of 2011 graduate Shoshana Zacharias wins title of Miss Junior Teen Indiana United States 2011. She competes for Miss Junior Teen USA in Las Vegas on July 7-15. Cheer her on! Read the local edition of the June 30, 2011 Hammond Times’ coverage.

• 3rd/4th grade teacher Miriam Kass wins the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. Read the Hyde Park Herald’s coverage or the JUF’s Noted & Quoted.

• The May 26, 2010 issue of the Hyde Park Herald portrays 7th grader Devora Klionsky who made it to the National Spelling Bee.

• Teachers help children see value of printed words and illustrations: Akiba-Schechter’s Kindergarteners and their books are featured in the Chicago Tribune Sunday section May 9, 2010.

• 8th grader is finalist in State Geography Bee competition and makes the March 24, 2010 front page of the Hyde Park Herald! Click here for the continuation of the story…

• The Kindergarten’s 100th Day of School Celebration (February 22) is covered in Chicago Journal.

• A story about our Israeli ambassadors appeared in the February 2010 issue of JUF News!

• Our Fiddler on the Roof production is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune on February 21, 2010. Pay attention to the last paragraph!

• You can fit volunteering into a busy life, as Akiba-Schechter parent Annette Gendler writes in Chicago Parent’s Making the Grade Guide.

• See our teachers’ tips on getting ready for school, published in NPN Parent-to-Parent Magazine.