We are excited to welcome Teacher of the Year, Dr. Rachael Mahmood, to PPS for new teacher mentoring!

We are excited to welcome Teacher of the Year, Dr. Rachel Mahmood to PPS for new teacher mentoring!

Ms Hardesty and Mrs Madden helped Mustang students celebrate the 100th day of school.

Executive Director Mrs Brooks praises second graders for their excellent writing.


The cold and snow won’t stop AP Hardesty from greetings upon arrival.
Our goal is 95% school attendance.

Ms Robbins, Ms Colwell, Ms Timberlake’ buddy club! 6th graders teaching 3rd graders to mark the text










The 8th grade AVID elective students improved their collaboration skills by working together to build the Pringle ring. #ThisisAVID







Our 7 mindsets unit is 100% accountable.


The Mustangs played super hard against Glen Oak tonight.










Mrs Lopez and her eighth graders presented holiday from their home countries. Presentations included cultural traditions, family traditions, and a feast of food from their countries.










Many Mustang families braved the cold temperatures for our 3rd annual family movie night.






We had so many former and current mustangs take part in The Grinch at Art inc.










Mrs Martin’s band students are ready for our winter concert.

Eighth grade students explored what fossils can tell us about life through hands on experiences, reading nonfiction text, and informational video.


Lincoln is happy to show our love for AVID! A sixth-grade student designed our new AVID sweater.




AP Hardesty treated Mrs. Hrdlicka’s homeroom to brownies for having the least referrals in the grade level last week.




Mrs. Madden and Mrs. Fauser host a special Thanksgiving lunch and students share about things they are thankful for.




The day before break, Peoria High, Richwoods, and Lincoln got together for our annual AVID event. High schoolers talked to middle schoolers about grades, TRFs, tutorials, and all things AVID. We did some team building activities to increase relational capacity.










Playing Draughts (checkers), Naughts and Crosses (tic tac toe), Hubbub, marbles, using a feather pen, eating homemade hardtack and butter…..learning about traditions from the time of the first Thanksgiving. We also learned that without the Native Americans help, the Pilgrims probably wouldn’t have survived. Happy Thanksgiving!







Happy Thanksgiving from us at LK8 to all of our mustangs and community!

