Had a ton of fun walking around Helen Keller Elementary School yesterday during our learning walk. It was great to see so many examples of active engagement, thanks for joining us Leah LeComte. #KirbyONE40

I have the distinct pleasure to make 14 (!) #PostivePhoneCalls home today to our Helen Keller Elementary School families. It's a fun treat on Friday when I get to brag about all the amazing things that they are doing here at school. #KellerProud #KirbyONE40

Congratulations to our Tinley Park Fire Department fire prevention poster winners! We had some great entries and ideas around the theme of "Fire won't wait, plan your escape." Nice job Cougars! #kellerproud #KirbyONE40

It was great to get into so many classrooms this morning and see a lot of active engagement in learning from our Cougars. So many smiling faces, learning really is fun! #kellerproud #kirbyONE40

Played four corners with the Nonactive Account learner engagement rubric with faculty. It was so interesting to hear different perspectives about the different teaching examples from movies that we used. It was overall a great conversation and learning. #kellerproud #KirbyONE40

It was great to have some dedicated time to talk about flexible furniture with our amazing KSD 140 teachers. Good conversations about enhancing the instructional strategies through varied classroom environments. Always fun to see Kelly Folliard too! #KirbyONE40

That’s a wrap! Check out this week’s highlights from D140 schools! #KirbyONE40 BannesBobcats Grissom Patriots McAuliffe Challengers Helen Keller Elementary School

Got a chance to play 4 corners again with the KSD 140 Ad Council. We had some great discussions and there was lots of professional learning. Thanks Dr. Daniel Callaghan for keeping us actively engaged and moving in the right direction as a team! #KirbyONE40

Andrew Varsity Athletic Leadership Team Thank you KSD 140 Helen Keller students and staff for allowing our Andrew athletic leaders to read to our future T-Bolts today! Can’t wait to return later this semester.

Special thanks to the Tinley Park fire department for stopping by to talk about fire safety with our young cougars today. They loved checking out the fire truck! #kellerproud #KirbyONE40

Congratulations to our Students of the Month as well as our Caring Cougar Raffle winners. It was such a great month here at Keller, so proud of all our Cougars! #kellerproud #KirbyONE40

Very exciting day for 5th grade and kindergarten as we were able to get our reading buddies program going. Our kinders have such great role models in our fifth graders! #kellerproud #KirbyONE40

Playing around with AR and the QuiverVision app in the media center today with third grade. #kellerproud #KirbyONE40

So lucky to have Kerry Shilkaitis and Megan Klozik with us this morning to talk workshop model with our staff. Two amazing KSD 140 educators sharing their knowledge and students benefit in the end! #KirbyONE40

What a great event today with the Pumpkin Chase and Ghost Buster races. Thanks to everyone who came out to support our students, especially Dr. Daniel Callaghan and Meghan Ramirez. #KellerProud #KirbyONE40

So proud of all the amazing students that I have the pleasure to work with every day at Keller! #KellerProud #KirbyONE40

Lots of amazing things happening in our district every week, we've got the best students, staff, and community! #KellerProud #KirbyONE40

According to at least one Keller student, Mr. Hanley was on the nice list this year! #KellerProud #KirbyONE40

So exciting to go to my mailbox and see so many letters from our Keller students in third grade. Can't wait to see what they had to say! #KellerProud #KirbyONE40

4th grade worked on fractions this past week using some M&Ms and Skittles, they had a lot of fun learning! #KellerProud #KirbyONE40 #EveryChildEveryDay