Opera For The Young at Ravinia School

Opera For The Young at Ravinia School

Opera for the Young is a traveling opera troupe with a mission towards making opera accessible and engaging to elementary students. The program adapts operatic works for elementary-aged students and sends a troupe of four young opera singers and a piano to facilitate...
Fall Grant Winners Announced

Fall Grant Winners Announced

Congratulations to the Fall 2019 Foundation Grant awardees!  The Foundation is proud to support grant programs in every school in North Shore School District 112.  This cycle of  Foundation Grants includes 22 grants totaling over $30,000.   Grant programs include a...
FUNd Run 2019

FUNd Run 2019

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 17th annual FUNd Run event on Saturday, October 5.  The race was a huge success!  We had almost 1400 participants register for either the 5K run or the Family Walk.  D112 students, families, teachers, administrators and...
Nathan Hale Family Night Event

Nathan Hale Family Night Event

Award-winning author, illustrator and graphic novelist, Nathan Hale, entertained scores of families as part of the first-ever Family Night Author Visit, funded by the 112 Education Foundation.  The event, organized by a team of District 112 librarians, and hosted by...
Middle School Orchestras Perform at Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall

Middle School Orchestras Perform at Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall

Each year, Ravinia’s Reach*Teach*Play education programs partner with the 112 Education Foundation, bringing nationally acclaimed Ravinia teaching artists to work with the Highland Park middle-school music students.  Rising star Kedrick Armstrong led all 6th–8th grade...
And the 2019 iRead winner is…

And the 2019 iRead winner is…

RAVINIA!  Congratulations to the Raccoons, and their librarian, Eric Lau, on a tremendous iRead.  Ravinia children read an average of over 1100 minutes per student during the course of the event to beat out four-time winner Sherwood, and claim the top spot in the...