Dirksen Receives Academic Excellence Award!

Dirksen School is proud to announce that we were one of 438 schools in Illinois to win the Academic Excellence Award from the Illinois State Board of Education. A few staff members and students went to Collins School today to represent Dirksen as Illinois State Superintendent Chris Koch presented the award. The Academic Excellence Award was given because we made AYP in 2010 and 2011 and that 90 percent of Dirksen students met or exceeded state standards in both reading and mathematics for the three most recent school years. This is Dirksen’s fourth consecutive year to receive this award and we couldn’t be happier!

To read the full story on School District 54′s website, click here.

Student Council Food Drive…a SOUPer Success!!!

Student Council’s SOUPer Bowl Food Drive that took place in conjunction with the PBIS Golden Ticket Football event was a HUGE success! As a whole school, Dirksen collected 637 food items! These items have been sent over to the District 54 Food Pantry that is housed at Mead Junior High.

The grade level totals were as follows:

K/1/2: 263 items
3/4: 222 items
5/6: 152 items

Classrooms from our winning grade level were awarded a prize this week. We appreciate everyone who helped to make the food drive such a SOUPer success!!!

From the Desk of Dr. Piech–February

Please click the link below to read Dr. Piech’s latest letter to the Dirksen community.

Dr. Piech’s February letter