On a sunny morning last week, the sounds of the Italian national anthem drifted in the air as a group of well-dressed men and women stepped off a bus in front of Ridgewood High School, greeted by a…
A delegation of officials from Italy including Attilio Fontana, right, president of Italy’s Lombardy region, and Raffaele Cattaneo, the Italian undersecretary of European and international public relations, visited Ridgewood High School in Norridge last week.
The visit on May 23 took place thanks to a virtual educational partnership between students of Italian at Ridgewood and students of English at Istituto Carlo Dell’ Acqua, a high school in Legnano, Lombardy. Attilio Fontana, president of Italy’s Lombardy region, took photos with students last week during an educational exchange visit to Ridgewood High School in Norridge.
Zingari also said she developed a deep friendship with Dolores Pigoni-Miller, an Italian teacher at Ridgewood. Zingari and Pigoni-Miller are the exchange program coordinators at their respective schools. Ridgewood Community High School #234 Superintendent Jennifer Kelsall said the school’s longstanding Italian language program includes about 200 students. “We have been very fortunate with our Italian teachers, who really create those authentic learning experiences for our kids,” she said.
Freshman Caterina Slukhinska, a native of Ukraine, said she almost felt like she was back in Italy with her grandparents, where she spent her summers growing up. In the wake of Russia’s invasion of her home country, Caterina moved to Italy for a time before settling in the Chicago area.
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