Ari Frede was appointed assistant head of school at Science & Arts Academy, an independent, nonprofit working day faculty for gifted pupils in Des Plaines.
Frede, who will do the job intently with Head of University Tim Costello, serves as the chief tutorial officer, responsible for the supervision and aid of all academics and instructional employees.
Moreover, he will aid academics and promote a lifestyle of development that advances the school’s priorities and strategic initiatives.
Frede has taught pupils in interior cities and the rural South, from elementary to higher college, particular education and basic instruction in Massachusetts, New Orleans, Mississippi and Winnetka.
He served as a principal intern and assistant principal with Chicago General public Colleges, and later started an arts-centered elementary charter university in Chicago. Most just lately, he served as head of school for the Ancona University, a progressive, Montessori-fusion faculty.
He attended Hampshire College, the University of Mississippi and the University of Illinois at Chicago, in which he attained a doctorate in urban education management in 2017.

Illinois Bone & Joint Institute welcomed Dr. Ryan Jacobs to its Gurnee, Lake Bluff and Libertyville clinics.
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Dr. Ryan Jacobs, a physical drugs and rehabilitation health practitioner with subspecialty education in nonsurgical musculoskeletal care, health care administration of ache and interventional diagnostic and therapeutic processes, has joined Illinois Bone & Joint Institute.
Dr. Jacobs, who will observe out of the Gurnee, Lake Bluff and Libertyville clinic locations, specializes in the procedure of pain stemming from a variety of disorders, like head and neck ache, back again suffering, degenerative disc disorder, spinal stenosis, joint soreness similar to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, spinal compression fractures, sciatica, herniated disc, athletics and get the job done-relevant accidents, intricate regional pain syndrome, cancer and shingles related nerve pain.
He is committed to the use of interventional methods to assistance reduce medicine utilization and decrease or prolong the need for big surgical treatment. His study on these subjects has been highlighted on the include of Pain Drugs News.
He also has comprehensive training in implantable nerve stimulators, treatment delivery techniques and interspinous spacer products.

Katie Brooks, organization development director, Elderwerks
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Katie Brooks has joined Elderwerks as organization growth director.
Brooks began her career as a new music therapist, working with the geriatric population. She turned a resident social services coordinator for twin prognosis seniors worked as a house manager in small-profits senior housing was the advertising and marketing director in competent residence wellbeing care assisted in opening an inpatient psychiatric clinic in Northern Illinois as neighborhood liaison and, most just lately, labored as the business enterprise enhancement manager for an spot hospice.
Brooks retains a bachelor’s degree in music remedy from Alverno University, Milwaukee, and has devoted practically 20 a long time to the senior wellness treatment marketplace.
“I am thrilled to be a part of the Elderwerks loved ones and eager to assistance enhance the attempts of bringing senior residing coordination, advocacy and education and learning to the Chicago region and outside of,” claimed Brooks.
Brooks has volunteered as president of the Senior Provider Coalition of Lake County has served on the board of administrators of AgeGuide and was a founding member of the Coalition for Growing older Means & Instruction was earlier company sponsorship chairwoman for the Lake County Wander to Stop Alzheimer’s and was earlier vice president of the Lake County Behavioral Wellbeing Alliance.
• Bartlett native Cadet Andrew Michael Thennes has completed Cadet Simple Coaching at the U.S. Military Academy.
Thennes entered West Stage on June 28 and has correctly done the 6 weeks of Cadet Fundamental Teaching, one of the most challenging occasions a cadet will encounter over the program of their 4 yrs at the academy.
The original military services schooling program supplies cadets with simple capabilities to instill self-discipline, delight, cohesion, confidence and a higher feeling of obligation to prepare them for entry into the Corps of Cadets.
Areas of summer months instruction integrated first help, mountaineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship and nuclear, organic and chemical schooling.
Thennes, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Todd Thennes, graduated from Bartlett Superior School. He programs to graduate from West Place in 2025 and be commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
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