As soon as schools closed, this IMC media specialist switched gears with the priority echoed by every educator: meeting students where they are.
The ongoing pandemic has brought new difficulties to the long-running problem of not having enough substitute teachers and paraprofessionals, a situation that has forced some administrators or other educators into the classroom to cover classes.
The board voted to adopt the plan with the condition that Superintendent Kristen Kendrick-Weikle will be able to revise the plan as necessary.
A group of McLean County Unit 5 high school students is demanding changes to address what they described as a long-running problem of systemic racism in the school district. Here's what they said during a protest Monday.
Fourteen Normal West students went to Iowa last weekend to meet 2020 presidential candidates and participate in a mock caucus.
NORMAL — Thirteen years in the classroom isn’t enough for several Normal high schoolers. They’re ready to start building a career there — and …
Students from 42 marching bands and color guards took the field Saturday for the Illinois State Marching Band Championship at ISU.
Bloomington-native Rebekah Hagberg represented the United States at the WorldSkills Competition in Russia. She earned 11th place in hairdressing and brought home a Medallion of Excellence for her score.
NORMAL — No longer the “new school,” Normal Community West High School celebrated its 25th anniversary Friday with an open house, bringing tog…
NORMAL — Illinois State and Eastern Illinois universities are part of an all-out social media blitz by the state's public universities to drum…
NORMAL — The recent resignation of McLean County Unit 5's human resources director drew a crowd and three people signed up to speak at Wednesd…
NORMAL — Two Bloomington-Normal teachers are finalists for the statewide Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
Courtney Elise Littell, having always been an adventurer and traveler, has gone exploring beyond the veil on Wednesday (Nov. 22, 2017) at age …
NORMAL — Normal Community West High School will hold its graduation ceremony at 6 p.m. Saturday (May 27, 2017) at U.S. Cellular Coliseum, Bloo…
NORMAL — There’s a mysterious missing room at Normal Community West High School.
BLOOMINGTON — The State Farm Companies Foundation has awarded scholarships to a number of children or legal dependents of State Farm employees…
Central Illinois has a special chance to celebrate something — and a lot of athletes — this week.
NORMAL — For the first time in his school career, 19-year-old Gaige Gundy is going to a formal dance.
NORMAL — Normal Community West High School's 2015 homecoming queen and king are seniors Kayleigh Anderson and Mitch Fairfield.
BLOOMINGTON — As the mother of a Normal Community West High School senior, Kristine Doherty of Normal knows not to panic at the start of school.
NORMAL — The Normal Community West High School band will celebrate the building's 20th anniversary in style this summer.