Dear Harmony Emge SD 175 School Community,
I am honored, humbled, and excited to begin working with you and our incredible team of educators, staff, administrators, and community as we work together to continuously improve our school district. During my first few days with the district, it has already become apparent the level of dedication and commitment our district has for our students, teachers, and community. Please know that I will be committed to working beside each of you to ensure that our students have every opportunity to succeed. I know that we will continue to do great things for the students and the community of Harmony-Emge #175.
I would like to take a moment to introduce myself and share a little bit about my background. I was born and raised in Southern Illinois. I currently reside outside of Freeburg with my wife (April), my three daughters (Shea, Mackinzie, Megan), and a long list of animals. I spent my first 9 years in education as a classroom teacher at Columbia High School. Over the last 15 years, I have had the opportunity to serve as an administrator (8 years elementary, 4 years high school, 3 year district office) in three school districts. Currently, I am completing my doctoral program at SIUE.
Thank you for all that you do, and I hope you have a great rest of your summer.
Sincerely,
Mr. Dustin Nail, Superintendent
Today's Teacher Spotlight is Mr. Romine!
This is Mr. Romine's 33rd year in the district. He taught third grade for 15 years, first grade for 15 years, kindergarten for a year and second grade his last two years. This will be his last year teaching in District #175 and is looking forward to retirement.
Thank you for spending 33 years with the district! We appreciate all that you do!
New Teacher Welcome!
My name is Ms. Pena and I am a new sixth grade math teacher at Harmony EMGE. I am very excited to kick off this new year as it will be my first year teaching! I graduated this past spring from Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin with a degree in Elementary Education and minors in English as a Second Language and Special Education. I am looking forward to a great year of making connections with my future students and families while I get to know this new community and profession!
Please give a warm welcome to Ms. Pena, we are so excited for you to join District 175!
Today's Teacher Spotlight is Ms. Johnson, 2nd grade teacher at Ellis. We are so lucky to have her!
I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in 2021 from SIUE. I became a teacher to make a positive impact in many students’ lives! I am so excited to be entering my 3rd year of teaching! This year I cannot wait to meet my students and make tons of new memories!
- Ms. Johnson
New Teacher Welcome!!
Hi! My name is Miss Keck. I attended Lindenwood University where I received a major in elementary education and a minor in dance. This will be my first year at the Harmony-Emge school district. I have known I wanted to be a teacher since I was in first grade. I can’t wait to meet everyone!
Let us all give a warm welcome to Ms. Keck! We are so excited to have you join District 175 Family!
Harmony 175,
It's been my honor and privilege to serve the community of west Belleville and Harmony-Emge SD 175. I thank our parents and community members for your support and a special thanks to all of our dedicated teachers, support staff, administrative team, and school board members for all they do. I wish everyone the best of luck moving forward and thank you for 13 wonderful years.
With Gratitude,
Dr. Deets
Congratulations to our new board members, Amanda and Yvette! Welcome to District 175 School Board of Education.
IXL Challenge!
District 175 Families-
We are offering free summer meals for pick up at Ellis School located at 250 Illini Dr
Dates: June 5th – July 21st will be closed July 3rd – July 7th. Monday – Friday Breakfast pick up at 8:30 and lunch at 11:30.
Ages 18 and under qualify for the meals. No sign up necessary, come to Ellis at the disgnated pick up times.
We have had 27 students meet or exceed our summer goal. We are so proud of all these hard working students!!! Whose name can we add next to our list?
Harmony & Emge IXL Challenge!
At the end of the week we had NINE STUDENTS reach 500 or more questions answered correctly on our Summer IXL Challenge. Please give a GIANT shoutout to our hard working and determined students!!!
Congratulations to Jonathan Ducey for already answering 672 correct questions this summer in our IXL Challenge!
Harmony & Emge Summer Challenge!
7th Grade Field Day fun!!☀️
Have a fun & safe summer break!
A big congratulations to 4th Grade’s Annual Connect 4 Tournament class winners! And an extra special thanks to Dr. Deets for playing our grade level winner, Tucker!
Ms. McClean’s class got ready for summer by having a water balloon toss!! Congrats to Xavier and Wael for being our winners!
Yesterday, Ms. McClean’s class got to do a fun classmate scavenger hunt! They had a sheet with descriptions on it (has a younger sibling, lost a tooth this year, etc.), and they had to go around the room and have their peers sign next to a description that matched them! It was a great way to get them up and moving these last few days of school 🤓
Mrs. Mollet and Mrs. Tish gave my class an ice cream party for returning all their library books in. A huge thank you to them!
