Apple Co-Founder’s Ed Group Adds Lindop 92 to "Elite" School Network

(Broadview, IL) – Top officials from Lindop School District 92 in western Cook County are celebrating their elementary school’s inclusion among “elite” school districts nationwide by the national education foundation, Woz ED, created by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Lindop 92’s top administrator, Superintendent Dr. Janiece Jackson, learned last week during Woz ED’s national conference in Arizona that the west suburban district of 360 students had officially secured a “Woz Pathway District Status.”

“Woz Pathway Districts are an elite group of Districts that exemplify teaching and learning designed for students to explore their future in the tech economy,” wrote Wozniak to district officials, granting the distinction. “Woz Pathway Districts are changemakers in education, and I am proud to induct Lindop School District 92 as part of an exclusive global community, recognized and celebrated for educational transformation that includes collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking.”

Lindop is among only 42 districts in the U.S. to be selected.

“Lindop has been recognized as the second cohort of only 42 inductee districts in the nation to receive the Woz Pathway District Status Recognition,” said Dr. Jackson, who attended the conference in Scottsdale and met Wozniak. “Lindop 92 is deeply grateful to Steve Wozniak and Woz ED for granting our district this distinction, and we are equally proud of our teachers and students who earned the Pathway status.”

Beyond the honor of Pathway status, Lindop 92 will benefit from Woz ED’s enhanced training and support; in person community outreach event support, including facilitation of hands-on experiences for parents; visitation priority (once implementation requirements are met); scholarships for the annual Pathway school induction; and more.

“Like Woz ED, Lindop 92 is committed to preparing our students for today and tomorrow’s workplace and a career path that emphasizes problem solving, collaboration and technology,” said Lindop 92 Board of Education President Shryl Griffin. “This collaboration with Woz ED may just produce the next Steve Wozniak from among the Lindop student body.”

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