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EATON IN THE NEWS!
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March 2018
11-Year-Old Financial Expert Gives Winning Portfolio Advice to Nonprofit, Sweeps SIFMA Foundation’s InvestWrite® Essay Competition. Read the full story!
11-Year-Old Financial Expert Gives Winning Portfolio Advice to Nonprofit, Sweeps SIFMA Foundation’s InvestWrite® Essay Competition. Read the full story!
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May 2017
Congratulations to Eaton 4th grader Grace Thornton for winning the "Celebration of Youth" essay contest. Read the full story! |
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March 2017
Congratulations to Eaton 3rd grader Lucien Bell on being a finalist in the Doodle 4 Google challenge! Lucien's doodle was made with recycled parts from a DVR. His message is that in the future we will need to turn trash into treasure. Read the full story here. And read the final outcome of the challenge here. |
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March 2017
Congratulations to our very own Mrs. Mary Clayman 2016 Rubenstein Award Winner for Highly Effective Teaching! Mrs. Clayman will be honored at Standing Ovation, a special evening to celebrate and reward the men and women of DC Public Schools for their innovation, service, and excellence. Mrs. Clayman, thank you for your dedication and commitment to Eaton's children! |
John Eaton Elementary School is one of the 118 schools that received the 2016 Support Music Merit Award (SMMA) from the NAMM Foundation!
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Fall 2016
Congratulations to Ms. Premila Mistry! Our dynamic music teacher was recently honored by The American Center for Elemental Music and Movement with the Spotlight Award. Please Click Here to learn more. |
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April 2016
Sometimes the best lessons take place outside the classroom. A group of Washington, DC, third graders learned that recently during a lesson on just how connected the world is — and how essential their city’s trees are to a musical little bird that spends half of its life thousands of miles away. Read more... |
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April 2016
Washington Performing Arts has chosen to honor our very own Mr. Jamal Brown with the 2016 Stern Award for his hard work and dedication in providing music instruction on string instruments to Eaton students. Congratulations! |
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Did you know that Mrs. Fotheringill is the great-granddaughter of D. Williams Johnson of the Cincinnati Red Stockings?
Check out this video as Mrs. Fotheringill throws out the first pitch. Her husband, Mr. Fotheringill (also in the video) volunteers every Friday morning to provide a unique Eagle Time baseball-themed enrichment class. We appreciate all that Mrs. Fotheringill does to instill the love of reading with our Eaton students! |
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Fall 2015
Check our Eaton's 5th grade journalists in the Northwest Current's Spotlight on Schools section! Click here to download all fall issues. |
April 2015
Check out Mark Lewis's piece in the recent edition of the Northwest Current and learn more about why Eaton Elementary excels at spelling! |
March 2015
Eaton students excitedly take part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which represents the official opening of the DCPS Intersections student art exhibit. Read more about Eaton Eagles participation in this special event! |
February 2015
Congratulations to Eaton's own Sarah Lavezzo! Ms. Lavezzo was named National Geographic's Educator of the Week! Ms. Lavezzo is one of the enrichment teachers for grades 1-5 at John Eaton Elementary School. She previously taught fifth grade. This is her second year using the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Peacebuilding Toolkit with Eaton students. Read the full story... |
January 2015
Check out the NPR article What Does Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy Look Like To A 5-Year-Old? highlighting our very own Ms. Barnhardt's Pre Kindergarten classroom at John Eaton Elementary School. |
October 2014
Click on this link to view Eaton students as they testify before DC Council members in support of the bill "DC Rocks, So We Need One." Out of all the children, in all the schools in Washington, DC, this group of Eaton Eagles realized that we do not have a state rock and then they did something about it! We think our Eaton Eagles rock! Read the full story in the Washington Post article Elementary Students Lobby DC Council. |
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