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Fenton Community High School District 100

Every child will make significant academic gains each year, increasing their knowledge, skills, and opportunities so they graduate equipped to pursue a successful future, with the state paying special attention to addressing historic inequities.

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Carolyn Wenz Elementary School (Paris-Union School District 95)

All districts and schools will receive the resources necessary to create safe, healthy, and welcoming learning environments, and will be equipped to meet the unique academic and social and emotional needs of each and every student.

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John Jay Elementary (Community Consolidated District 59)

Illinois’ diverse student population will have educators who are prepared through multiple pathways and are supported in and celebrated for their efforts to provide each and every child an education that meets their needs.

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ISBE's Weekly Message

April 1, 2025

Fireside Chat with Shalinee Sharma: Unlocking Our Students’ Math Potential

Way back in the 1980s, the fast food chain A&W tried to compete with McDonald’s famous Quarter Pounder hamburger by offering a slightly larger “third of a pound” burger. Even though the A&W burger won all the taste tests and had a lower price, the “third of a pound” burger obviously never caught on. Why? Because many Americans never grasped fractions and mistakenly believed that one quarter of a pound has more beef than one third of a pound. Shalinee Sharma includes this tale in her book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, to illustrate our ongoing struggle with numbers. Shalinee is on a personal mission to change that narrative and create, as the title of her book promises, a way to help all our school students love math. You can hear her explain exactly how to do that during my next Fireside ChatGo To Meeting Link, happening at 9 a.m. on May 15.

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