Joan Valentine became just the second person in school history to reach 40 years of service, following business manager Kathy Neal, who achieved the feat last fall.

We can all agree that 2020 has been an unprecedented year in many ways. No group of people has been unaffected by COVID-19 and its impacts. This is the backdrop in which we started the 2020-2021 school year.

Please join us in welcoming Mrs. Jane Adewole to the Independence faculty as a full-time substitute teacher. Mrs. Adewole is here to cover for absent teachers and will also provide support for small group instruction on-campus and for online learners. 

Ms. Pretz will join Independence the week of September 28 as a member of our science faculty, teaching grades 1-5. She comes to us from the Brandywine Zoo where she was Assistant Curator of Education.

Congratulations to First-grade teacher, Barbara Annable, who has been named one of Delaware's Top Teachers in the September issue of Delaware Today. 

Now that we are halfway through summer, the heat is on to get those summer reading books finished!  How then, do you read in an effort to finish the task, but more importantly to learn from and remember the books you read?