Congratulations to our incredible employees on their years of service! We couldn’t do this without you! ☺️
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years of service
At last week’s Board meeting, we honored this year’s Galaxy Award recipients one more time!
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galaxy award winners with superintendent and board president
Let’s hear it for our retirees! 👏👏👏 You will be so missed- and we wish you all the best on your next chapter!
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staff photo of retirees
Our junior high students are continuing to glow this summer as they keep their skills sharp through the online summer program! You make us proud Thomas, Leonard, Rex, Samuel, Lucille, Christopher, Lauren, and Andrew!
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Mokena Summer Learning
Lieutenant Sickles was recently presented with a small token of appreciation for his many years of service to our schools and to the community. Congratulations on your retirement and we wish you the best as you begin this next chapter in your life!  
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Mokena fire at board meeting
Mokena fire at board meeting
artwork
Mokena fire at board meeting
Our rising 6th grade Meteors are on fire as they continue their learning online this summer! ☄️ Keep it up Matthew, Liam, Kaitlyn, Andrew, Clayton, and Evan! Participation is open for current Mokena students all summer! Please visit our district website link for more information: https://www.mokena159.org/o/msd159/page/summer-learning
about 3 years ago, Kristin Johnson
Mokena Summer Learning
Our rising 5th graders can't stop their learning with almost 2,000 minutes of summer practice! We are so proud of you Briar, Kyle, Joshua, Jacob, Eliana, Sydney, Tyler, Robert, Abigail, Kaitlyn, Emily, Andrew, Wyatt, and Carol!
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Mokena Summer Learning
We are proud of our rising 3rd graders who are practicing their reading and math skills from home in our summer learning program! Keep it up Claire, Joseph, Andrew, Matthew, Vincent, Bradley, Asher, Ryan, Fletcher, and Harper!
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Mokena Summer Learning
Our rising 2nd graders are continuing to grow into the summer with nearly 900 minutes of learning in our summer program! Keep it up Lucille, William, Amelia, Ronan, Henry, Alex, Siena, Thomas, Emma, Travis, Matthew, Derry, and Evelyn!
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Mokena Summer Learning
We can see these rising 4th graders are ready to blast off to MIS as they are continuing their learning with our summer program! Keep it up Madison, Ashlyn, Elliot, Weston, Thomas, Alexander, Charles, Gage, and Luke! 🚀
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Mokena Summer Learning
A special shoutout to our rising 1st graders who have continued their learning using our online summer program! Way to go Iacovos, Rylee, Callie, Kaylee, Teagan, Griffin, Brenden, Matthew, Marlowe, Connor, and Abel!
about 3 years ago, Kristin Johnson
Mokena Summer Learning
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Illinois Principal Association (IPA) Student Recognition award! Students were honored at a breakfast hosted by the IPA and a Board meeting. Way to go: Kathryn Blaisdell, Evan Dizon (MES), Addisyn Quinlan, Dominic Santelli (MIS)!
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students recognized at board meeting
student receiving plaque
student receiving plaque
student receiving plaque
Congratulations to Girl Scout Troop 574 for earning their Bronze Award! The 5th graders chose to raise money to purchase playground equipment for MIS. Way to go Brooke Wheeler, Nadia Guiterrez, Grace Volakakis, Julianna Siville, Breena Guidera, Andrea Voith, and Delilah Clancy!
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Girl Scouts at the board meeting
Last Friday, Mokena Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Melissa Fedora presented the annual “Teacher of the Year” awards! Congratulations to Debi Blank (MES), Nick Ruiz (MIS), and Don Shaughnessy (MJHS)! 🥳🥳
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teachers of the year
Ms. Borlee couldn’t make it to the last day of school but that didn’t stop her from sending her students off in style!
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borlee class
Happy last day of school! Have a wonderful summer! ⭐️🚀☄️#mokena159
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happy last day of school graphic
Happy last day of school! Have a wonderful summer! ⭐️🚀☄️
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graphic saying “happy last day of school"
Mrs. Janes’ 3rd graders did an excellent job performing their class plays last week!
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students performing
students performing
students performing
class on stage
Mrs. Matt’s kindergarten class recently created and tested paper airplanes! Way to go, Stars!
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kids throwing paper airplanes
kids throwing paper airplanes
Thank you to our mentor teachers for supporting our new teachers throughout their first year in Mokena SD 159. Today we celebrated these impactful partnerships and year full of collaboration!
about 3 years ago, Kristin Johnson
mentor partnership
mentor partnership
mentor partnership
mentor partnership