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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Fox River Grove School District 3 serves | ||||||
| 3 | middle-school students in Fox River Grove and their families; | ||||||
| 4 | one of their teachers, Jane Szybowicz, has taught fifth-graders | ||||||
| 5 | here since 1996; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | ||||||
| 7 | is a non-profit, private-sector advocacy group that conducts an | ||||||
| 8 | ongoing search for enthusiastic and innovative ways to teach | ||||||
| 9 | history to students throughout the United States; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, For 19 years, Jane Szybowicz has worked tirelessly | ||||||
| 11 | to maintain and improve her professional work as a teacher, | ||||||
| 12 | attending many conferences, seminars, and colloquiums where | ||||||
| 13 | she participates in presentations by other high-level | ||||||
| 14 | educators and discusses her work; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, The reputation of Jane Szybowicz has grown among | ||||||
| 16 | her fellow teachers, her students, and the families of her | ||||||
| 17 | students because of her obvious enthusiasm for telling stories | ||||||
| 18 | to her pupils and showing how these stories fit into greater | ||||||
| 19 | stories, such as the greater story that is American history; | ||||||
| 20 | and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, In May of 2015, Jane Szybowicz learned that she | ||||||
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| 1 | had been honored by the Lehrman Institute as the 2015 Illinois | ||||||
| 2 | History Teacher of the Year; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, As the 2015 Illinois History Teacher of the Year, | ||||||
| 4 | Jane Szybowicz will now be a candidate for the award of | ||||||
| 5 | National History Teacher of the Year, to be awarded later in | ||||||
| 6 | 2015; therefore, be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 8 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 9 | congratulate Jane Szybowicz on the occasion of being honored as | ||||||
| 10 | the 2015 Illinois History Teacher of the Year and wish her well | ||||||
| 11 | as she continues her career; and be it further
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| 12 | RESOLVED, That we know that the honor given to Jane | ||||||
| 13 | Szybowicz also honors her students and their families, who have | ||||||
| 14 | worked with her to be part of the bigger story that is Fox | ||||||
| 15 | River Grove Eagle Pride; and be it further | ||||||
| 16 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 17 | presented to Jane Szybowicz, Dr. Tim Mahaffy, Superintendent of | ||||||
| 18 | Fox River Grove School District 3, and Devin Bright, President | ||||||
| 19 | of the Fox River Grove School District 3 Board of Education.
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