Winter has arrived! As a reminder, students will go outside for recess when the "feels like" temperature is 10 degrees or higher. Please be sure to send your students with boots, snow pants, jackets, hats, and gloves any time the forecast calls for possible snow. Please do not send students to school with disposable hand warmers as there is some risk of students burning their skin.

As a reminder, please review our school closing information.

The Rotary Club of Northbrook is collecting new and gently used coats of all sizes during the annual Coat Off Your Back collecting drive through Dec. 20. 

Collections bins are located in the lobby of each school.

The Young Explorers leadership team launched a new podcast, The Power of Play.  In our first episode of The Power of Play, we talk about the role of play in the development of cognitive functions, such as problem-solving, memory, attention, and abstract thinking.

The District is excited to offer three opportunities for parents and caregivers to come together around topics of interest to our District 28 community.

Sixth-graders returned to class a little more at ease about junior high and with a few new friends after participating in Northbrook Junior High’s Outdoor Education program at Camp Timber Lee Sept. 25-27.

The experience is intended to help the students build community in a junior high where three elementary schools come together.

Is it the secret hand signal? Is it the chance to be a leader as an older student or the chance for a younger student to make friends with a ‘big kid’? Or is it a break in routine and the chance to work with an adult they wouldn’t otherwise know?

The answer is probably all of the above. And one thing is certain: when it’s Pack Day, students are excited, said Social Worker Melina Liontas.

The District is excited to offer three opportunities for parents and caregivers to come together around topics of interest to our District 28 community.

Westmoor 5th-grader Anthony Pace demonstrated that he not only knows his way around the stock market, but also how to write about it. Anthony placed first in the state of Illinois in the Elementary School Division of the Spring 2024 InvestWrite national essay competition.

District 28’s Young Explorers Early Childhood program is accepting 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children for the 2024-25 school year.

We are excited to announce that First Student’s FirstView mobile app is now operational.  This mobile app provides several features designed to help parents and students monitor their bus routes.