Best & brightest.(Neighbor)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2003

- Michael Chiodo, Mundelein High School's band director, received a master's degree in music education from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. He also holds a bachelor's degree in instrumental music from the University of Memphis. Chiodo has been a teacher at Mundelein High School since 2000.

- Mundelein High School art teacher Debra Fitzsimmons received a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Her dissertation, titled "Visual Arts Teachers' Perceptions of Electronically Formatted Portfolios" was based on a two-year study that observed and analyzed 10 Northern Illinois art teachers as they piloted electronic portfolios in their fifth- through twelfth- grade level curricula and classrooms. Using...