Mrs. Margaret White

Voice Mail: (847) 255-0050 X 349
Email: mwhite@olwschool.org

About Myself

My name is Margaret White and I live in Arlington Heights. This is my 20th year teaching at Our Lady of the Wayside School.  Prior to kindergarten, I taught pre-school at OLW, and prior to that, I taught kindergarten for ten years at Roycemore School in Evanston, Illinois.  I have been married for 34 years and I have three children.  Dan is working at Ogden School and is finishing his Master's in special education.  Bryan has graduated from Purdue and is currently working and studying for his actuarial exams.  Stephanie has graduated and is currently working as an editor for the Big Ten Network.  We have recently added Chloe to the clan!  She's a four month old Yellow Lab.

Room 206 Goal Statement

My goal this year is to develop the full potential of each student's intellectual, ethical, physical, creative, cultural, social, and technological capabilities. This will be accomplished by providing equitable quality instruction and building positive relationships with young people .

Kindergarten Philosophy

OLW's kindergarten program approaches children holistically, providing for and promoting cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. A developmentally appropriate curriculum and environment ensures that all children feel secure and experience success daily. Children are active participants whose needs, interests, and abilities are the basis for all program decisions. If children are to exist in, adapt to, and be contributing members of future societies, then it is our responsibility as educators to facilitate their success toward this end. The kindergarten experience must help children learn to function both independently and cooperatively in an environment in which all participants celebrate and value each other's differences, while finding comfort and understanding in each other's similarities. Children must be given the opportunity to make important decisions, to take risks, and to adapt to change, OLW understands that, in order for children to understand and function in the world in which we ALL live, children must first make sense of their OWN world.