A trio of Prospect High School students recently could be spotted in Mount Prospect Elementary School District 57 classrooms as part of a program giving high schoolers interested in teaching careers an early look at the profession.
Filip Dudic taught high school classes for a decade, and now at Douglas MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights, he still kind of is. Dudic, an applied technology teacher, is one of the driving forces behind an innovative partnership between Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 and Northwest Suburban High School District 214 that allows eighth graders to design, build and program a robot and get high school credit for it.
Eighth graders at MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights are designing, building and programming a robot and getting high school credit for it. It’s all part of the school's new dual-credit Robotics class, the result of a partnership between Prospect Heights School Dist. 23 and Township High School Dist. 214. The partnership enables students
Programs like SOARBucks at Lincoln Middle School in Mount Prospect are teaching special needs students valuable life skills through operating their own coffee business on campus.