Welcome to the fifth Teacher Feature of the 2024-2025 school year! I am delighted to feature Ms. Conard, one of our Spanish teachers. This is her first school year teaching at Richwoods. Ms. Conard is...
Hello readers of The Shield! Today, we are honored to interview Mr. Vinson, our recent addition to our counseling staff. He is known for many things, from Counselor to City Hall Worker to Batman Fan to...
“There are many career opportunities in the healthcare industry”: An Interview with Dr. Timir Baman
At 6:30 p.m. I hop out of the car and make my way to the back door of the brick building of...
Girls' tennis season just ended with two seniors making yet another trip to the State finals! Olivia Reynolds and Theresa Bartelme have done something that is rare and extremely difficult to do in Illinois...
Mr. Partington, a new math teacher at Richwoods, teaches Geometry Enriched, Math Lit, and AP Calculus in room 410. He graduated from the University of Arizona and has experience in both tutoring and teaching....
It's a pleasure to welcome a new math teacher to Richwoods High School. This is Mrs. Still's first-year teaching math at Richwoods High School. She currently teaches Algebra 1 Enriched, Algebra 2 Enriched,...
“I Stand On the Shoulders of So Many That Come Before Me”: An Interview with Andre Allen
On September 5th, 2024, I walked past the yellow and orange marigolds, past a gigantic monument with an inscription...
Welcome to our first teacher feature of the 2024-2025 school year! I am glad to feature the second-year teacher, Miss Juma, a graduate of Richwoods! She teaches Biology and Horticulture which is the study...
Madison Adler, Junior Editor-in-Chief
• February 22, 2024
There’s a new face at Richwoods this year: Ms. Shannon Schmitt! This is Ms. Schmitt’s first year teaching as a full-fledged teacher, but she did a year of student-teaching in Arizona. The classes she...
On November 23, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that loneliness is a “health threat” and created a new commission dedicated to help create connections between communities. “This...
Travis Kelce is dishing about Taylor Swift’s big night at the Chief’s game. Just days after the 12-time Grammy winner attended the NFL player’s Sept. 24th Kansas City Chiefs game, where she sat alongside...
On June 29th, spurred by many lawsuits pushed by Asian-American-backed organizations, the Supreme Court made a ruling effectively eliminating affirmative action in college admissions. Affirmative action,...
