News | Carl Sandburg

CSMS students qualify for ILMEA bands

Oct 18, 2024

Six Carl Sandburg eighth graders qualified for the Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA), making it the largest number of CSMS students ever selected for this prestigious honor. The students, Justin Carvalho, Stella Hunter, Kimberlyn Diaz, Noah Jarrett, Cami Plohr and Cassidy Langford, were selected from among hundreds of middle school musicians in the Lake County area. Only a handful qualified based on their audition scores.

First-time apple event both healthy and fun

Oct 18, 2024

Carl Sandburg students voted with their teeth when it came time to choose their favorite tasting apples. The choices were simple: green or red. The tasting was part of the Illinois Great Apple Crunch, an initiative of the Illinois Farm to School Network, brought to District 75 schools in October by the D75 Wellness Committee with support from the D75 PTO. The D75 Wellness Committee purchased local apples for the event from Goebbert's Farm & Garden Center.

D75 names new middle school principal

Feb 28, 2024

The District 75 School Board on Feb. 27 approved the hiring of Dr. Andrew Vondran to serve as the next principal at Carl Sandburg Middle School. Vondran will begin at CSMS on July 1, following the retirement of long-time CSMS Principal Mark Pilut.

"Lost Boys" present a lesson in overcoming hardship

Feb 06, 2024

The two men stood in front of sixth and seventh-graders, tall and smartly dressed, wearing brightly colored blazers. It was hard to imagine them as skinny 10-year-old refugees escaping war-torn Sudan. Yet here they were, two of the Lost Boys of Sudan, nearly 40 years after their lives were turned upside down by war, speaking to students at Carl Sandburg Middle School on Tuesday morning. Their positive message was accented by their smiles.

MHS senior creates backdrop for middle school musical

Jan 31, 2024

When Carl Sandburg Band Director Moulee Gupta was searching for a backdrop for the school’s annual musical, “Descendants,” she hoped to find something special to match the enthusiasm her students were putting into the show. “It was just about finding the right people to make the magic come alive,” she said.

D75 dual language teachers serve as a model for visiting educators

Dec 20, 2023

During the past few months, educators from school districts in Lake County and beyond have visited Mundelein schools to learn about best practices for teaching bilingual education. District 75 has become a model dual language district. In October, D75 hosted teachers and administrators from McHenry and North Chicago and showed them how it teaches bilingualism and biliteracy to students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

Author's message of kindness helps turn D75 readers into empathetic writers

In a special visit to District 75, Children’s author Trudy Ludwig used her book, “The Invisible Boy,” to inspire elementary students to be kind, inclusive and accepting. Then she invited middle school students to continue spreading her message by creating their own picture books.

Eighth-grade blogger becomes keynote speaker

A lot of middle school students struggled with remote learning during the pandemic. But only Carl Sandburg eighth-grader Kennedy Gallagher wrote a blog about it.

Students take journey to space in STEM classroom project

The students in Todd Katz’ seventh-grade STEM class are on a mission. They are trying to rescue Tyro, a fictional space exploration robot that’s gone missing on a distant planet. In order to find him, they’ve got to use a bit of science and a lot of math.

D75 libraries work together to update book collection

School libraries these days, often called multimedia centers, and are equipped with computers, video screens, art supplies and games. But amidst all the new gadgets and high-tech equipment are books. Shelves and shelves of books.