Ambassadors to the Board of Education
Zoey Kue, Walker Winkler, and Tessa Wolf were selected to serve as the ACHS Ambassadors to the Board of Education. We greatly appreciate their...
ACHS Celebrates & Honors Local Veterans
The Social Studies Department worked on various ways to celebrate and honor local veterans on Veterans Day. Posters were mailed out to veterans and...
Learning & Growing Together
In my 25 years in education, this has been one of the most challenging. Teachers and administrators were not trained for this. We want...
How to Physical Distance Without Socially Distancing
Due to the COVID pandemic, many things have changed in a short amount of time. As we move into the 2020-2021 school year, we...
It Takes a Team
As a result of the COVID-19 shut down in March, many of our Driver’s Ed students were unable to complete their behind the wheel...
Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) Inspires Next Generation of Researchers
The ESRP, now in its ninth year, welcomed 137 students and 23 teachers from 17 diverse Chicagoland high schools for the 2019–2020 school year....
LCHS Summer Freshman Academy
Lakes Community High School welcomed 65 students to our Summer Freshman Academy (SFA) from July 13-31, 2020. Since 2008, SFA has been preparing students...
Unique Situations = Engaging Students
The District 117 Athletic Department develop procedures to begin to engage returning student athletes in summer camp opportunities starting in July. Students and coaches...
Lakes Coaches Stay Connected
Following the cancellation of spring sports our student athletes were left with more questions than answers. This difficult situation provided the Lakes Athletic Department...
What is a Sequoit?
For the past several years, I have researched, investigated, asked questions, checked online resources, and observed happenings to discover the true meaning of the...