Kara Schoff, special education teacher at Truman High School, was named the district’s 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year.
The Independence School District is one of just a select few worldwide chosen to participate in an incredible educational experience sponsored by Google.
Featuring 30 students from Truman, Van Horn and William Chrisman, ISD FBI members have worked very hard creating the ultimate robot.
More than 40 student-cadets from all three ISD high schools toured historic Fort Leavenworth, spending much of their day at the elite Command and General Staff College.
Months of hard work by the Nowlin Middle School Black and Gold Choir culminated Wednesday when the group sang from the stage of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
Several William Chrisman, Truman and Van Horn students earned (I) Exemplary ratings and qualified for the state vocal/instrumental contest in Columbia.
ISD students and thousands of others are ‘eggcited’ about this special learning opportunity!
William Chrisman’s Lady Bears capture their first district basketball title in six years!
Mallory Elton, recovery room interventionist at Procter Elementary School, was named the district’s 2016-2017 Classified Employee of the Year.
Members of the Missouri Mavericks hockey team and Mavericks Owner Lamar Hunt, Jr. were among several guests who visited ISD students this week.
The ISD is proud to announce significant growth on the Annual Performance Report.
A small group of William Chrisman High School students travel across the district delivering an important message – stop bullying!
Nearly 100 educators from across the country converged on Luff Elementary School for The Leader in Me symposium Tuesday, February 16.
Join us for Pound the Ground for the Kids 5K Sunday, February 21 inside the caves in the Space Center Executive Park. Money raised goes directly to the ISD PTA of your choice.
Bingham Middle School music teacher Philip Enloe won a Grammy Award at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
Van Horn’s JROTC cadets, the ‘Freezing Falcon’ team, along with several hundred others, took a dip in icy Longview Lake as part of the annual Polar Bear Plunge, a fundraiser for Special Olympics Missouri.
The ISD celebrated kindness week with students showing many ways to be kind. William Southern Elementary students decorated 500 paper bags and gave them to Hy-Vee (40 Highway and Noland) to give to customers to raise awareness about kindness week.
Thank you parents and students who joined us for Academy Jamboree! This was a wonderful opportunity for staff and business partners to share the exciting additions to our Career Academies for the 2016-2017 school year.
Independence Health Department (IHD) clinicians will come to the middle and high schools to administer Tdap and MCV immunizations in February.
Kody Broyles, Truman High School senior offensive lineman, was one of just 52 players nationwide selected to play against Canada in the 2016 International Bowl January 31.
For the first time in nearly 10 years, the Van Horn Falcon Mock Trial Team competed in a Kansas City district mock trial event.
William Chrisman High School senior Jaleea West won the John Olivarez Scholarship essay contest and Bingham Middle School eighth-grader Grace Bell won the middle school essay contest at the City of Independence Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration January 18.
Nearly 60 ISD eighth-grade girls got a glimpse into their potential future during the district’s annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Night inside Truman High School.
Holiday cheer came in the form of ‘goodie bags’ for staff and students of Fairmount Elementary, courtesy of the Liberty Ladies League.
Independence Academy’s senior class heard their teacher Alison Saunders talk about her love of sewing and quilting and decided to use those skills to make the holidays special for the staff, students and one very special organization.
