DISTRICT 36 STRATEGIC PLAN AND PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE

The Winnetka Public Schools community has shared a deep commitment to Progressive Education for over 100 years. Our School Board, administrators, and staff are honored to continue our history of excellence by cultivating rich experiential learning opportunities and fostering the academic and social and emotional skills that our students need to thrive now and into the future. To further advance this important work, the District embarked on an ambitious Strategic Planning process starting in March 2020. One of the results of this process is the District’s Portrait of a Graduate:

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JOIN THE PTO!

The Crow Island Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) is a volunteer organization that oversees programs at our school.  There are more than 50 committees requiring chairpersons and volunteers. It takes more than 250 volunteers to run the PTO’s programs each school year.

For questions about volunteer opportunities, please contact the VP of Programs via email at crowislandprograms@gmail.com.  Please consider how you can get involved and thank you in advance for your interest.

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What makes Crow Island School Special?          

The history of Crow Island School is an interesting story. The site on which Crow Island stands was, until the late thirties, a swamp, as was most of west Winnetka. Some of the grandparents of our present pupils recall wading and swimming in the area when they were children. A few high spots – “islands,” were in evidence. One, where the golf course is now located, was called “Strawberry Island,” because of the profusion of wild strawberries. Another, where the Crow Island Woods is still to be found, was called “Crow Island” because the crows liked to congregate there.

When the Skokie Marsh was dredged to drain the area, the fill was brought to west Winnetka and the swamps disappeared. Crow Island Woods remains behind the school today, an exquisite natural wooded area which provides for the school’s children an outdoor laboratory for learning and a virtually untouched forest where wildlife and wildflowers abound. Although most of the crows have left the island for less populated areas, Crow Island School now has its own permanent Crow in the form of a unique metal sculpture, designed and built by Winnetka lawyer-sculptor, Max Fleisher.

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