Our School

Your student belongs at Jefferson Junior High School! At Jefferson, we foster a learning environment that respects all individuals and ideas. We encourage your student to participate in our various clubs, activities, special school events, intramurals, athletics, and/or performance music groups in order to build their connections to their school community and peers and further develop their sense of belonging to our Patriot community. As a school community, we are future-focused and driven to innovate and support our community in new, unique ways. Our teachers strive to provide learning experiences that challenge our students to think critically, encourage inquiry, and foster the development of the whole student, including the support of their social emotional needs. Once a Patriot, Always a Patriot. As a Patriot family, we welcome you and look forward to partnering with you to better serve our students and community.

Academics

Jefferson provides opportunities for students to succeed in many different ways by offering not only traditional classes like Science, Math, Language Arts, Social Sciences, and Physical Education, it provides elective opportunities in the area of Applied Arts & Sciences, World Languages, and Performance Music. There are also classrooms that support students who struggle along with students who excel.

Curriculum & Instruction

This section of our webpage is devoted to our departments here at Jefferson. Please navigate by using the links in the left sidebar.

Below is the contact information for our department coordinators.

JJHS Department Coordinators

*Liza Palubicki* Language Arts lpalubicki@naperville203.org 630.848.5661	Lindsey Pennings Math lpennings@naperville203.org 630.848.5680
*Blake Zinn* Science bzinn@naperville203.org 630.848.5355	*Chris Heffernan* Social Science cheffernan@naperville203.org 630.848.5660
*Eddie Gonzalez & Alex Smid* Physical Education eagonzalez@naperville203.org asmid@naperville203.org 630.420.6445 630.579.7095	*Patrick Gallagher* Exploratory Department and Performance Music pgallagher@naperville203.org 630.848.5642

JJHS Specialists

Ms. Barnes
Math Intervention Specialist
akbarnes@naperville203.org
630.305.4367

Ms. Cabrera
Math Intervention Specialist
jcabrera@naperville203.org
630.328.5878

Ms. Espinoza
Bilingual Reading Specialist Intervention Specialist
mespinoza@naperville203.org
630.420.3178

Ms. Pennings
Math Intervention Specialist
lpennings@naperville203.org
630.848.5680

Ms. Rains
Reading Intervention Specialist
erains@naperville203.org
630.848.5376

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