Canton Daily Ledger
SPRINGFIELD In a first for the Illinois Principals Association, they are hosting their Annual Education Leaders Conference virtually. The 49th annual Education Leaders Conference and Exhibition, “L.E.A.D.” Conference (Learning – Equity – Advocacy – Diversity) will take place online Feb. 22-23. The annual conference provides an opportunity for principals and other administrators to learn from leaders in the education field and participate in sessions to better serve their schools.
“School leaders have been there to support teachers, guide parents, and serve our students through the multitude of challenges this school year,” said Dr. Amy Dixon, IPA President. “With the aid of the Illinois Principals Association, principals have not only overcome the challenges, but shown tremendous personal growth and flexibility. Now it is time for school leaders to take time to recharge and renew their purpose, passion, and leadership. The IPA Education Leade
Since she was 5 years old, Corren Watson of New Berlin tagged along with her older brother, Kallen, first to his Cub Scout meetings and then to his Boy Scout meetings.
Even though she had begun on her own path by joining the Girl Scouts as a Daisy in kindergarten, Corren Watson still hoped membership for girls in the Boy Scouts would become a reality. It was really more of a hope because for so long the country was kind of against letting girls in, so I didn t figure it would actually happen, but I still wanted to be able to be a part of it somehow, some way, said Watson, a 15-year-old sophomore at New Berlin High School. People around me sometimes were thinking, girls already have this program over here. Why do they need this program over here, too?
By Benjamin Cox on January 8, 2021 at 7:15pm
Illinois sex abuse victims in a school district can now file suit more than 2 decades after an incident. The Illinois 4th District Appellate Court panel affirmed a Sangamon County judge’s decision to deny a dismissal bid lodged by Board of Education of the New Berlin Community Unit School District No. 16 in a suit accusing a former teacher of sexually abusing an underage female student over a four-year period ending in 1989.
The ruling upholds 7th Circuit Judge Gail Noll’s ruling from March 2019 that the New Berlin Board of Education can be sued for conduct committed by former teacher Carroll Owen Smith.