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Learning From A Legend: Ms. Granata Returns To EPCHS For A Day
Dianna Granata, a longtime EPCHS teacher, spent an hour in her old classroom sharing teaching tips with her former colleagues.
EVERGREEN PARK, IL - Evergreen Park Community High School was thrilled to bring back the recently retired Ms. Dianna Granata for an hour after school on Wednesday.
Granata, who taught at EPCHS from 1996 to 2021, was back in her old classroom sharing teaching tips and tactics with current EP teachers. She was happy to see many of her classroom staples, including the lava lamps, have remained in place.
The longtime teacher told her former colleagues about how she would handle behavioral problems in class, organize lesson plans and how she set up her classroom to maximize productivity, among other topics.
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Business teacher Scott Pasek pointed out how Granata was "ahead of the times" in having her own class website back when she was mentoring him in 2004.
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Principal Bill Sanderson was among the many who stopped by to say hello, calling Ms. Granata a "legend."
"If we get just two-thirds of what we got from Ms. Granata from all of you, we are going to be in phenomenal shape," Sanderson told the group of current teachers.
