Woodstock School District 200 Staff, Volunteer Honored By State Education Board

For more than a decade, Debbie Schweihs has been the masterful matriarch of the Woodstock School District 200 band program, instilling a passion for music from the first time students pick up an instrument in fifth grade. Schweihs, the District 200 elementary band director, was among eight District 200 employees and one volunteer honored Saturday by the Illinois State Board of Education at its Those Who Excel/Teacher of the Year banquet in Normal. Fifth-grade Olson Elementary School teacher Katie Jacobson has worked with Schweihs, whom the ISBE presented with an Award of Merit, both as a colleague and as Schweihs’ band student. “Mrs.