Highland Park Education

read moreMad for Plaid is our annual campaign that engages parents, grandparents, HPHS alumni, HPISD teachers and staff, and the broader Park Cities community to raise support that enables the Foundation to grant critically needed funds benefiting every child in every school in HPISD! The Highland Park High School Alumni Association started the Alumni Awards program in 1989. Since then, we have honored over 50 Highland Park Graduates with this honor at our yearly award ceremony. We also honor former employees of the HPISD school district with the Service Award.

read moreEvery gift to Mad for Plaid, no matter the size, impacts our entire community by staying right here in the district. Over the last 35 years, the Highland Park Education Foundation (HPEF) has granted more than $35 million to HPISD. HPEF partners with the district in many ways: providing teacher and staff salary support through Mad for Plaid, scholarships for teachers and students, facilitating grants for teacher innovation projects and professional development, growing a permanent endowment, supporting the Moody Innovation Institute, veterans plaque, HPHS Alumni Association, Retired Teachers' Luncheon, and more!

read moreSince 1984, the Highland Park Education Foundation has granted more than $35 million to HPISD. This partnership allows resources and unique programming for our educators, and we hope you will join us in supporting the Foundation and the many benefits we make available for our schools, our classrooms, and our students. We need you to help us help HP! As part of the HP family, the Education Foundation is here for you and your students, district-wide. Your investment in us allows us to keep working for you.

read moreWe grew up here, raised our children here, and now our granddaughters are growing up here. Mad for Plaid is the Education Foundation's annual campaign, which raises public support for HPISD's critical budget needs. Without your support, teachers and students will experience the impact of budget cuts. The HP Education Foundation Leadership Society is the cornerstone of the Mad for Plaid campaign, providing donors with the opportunity to significantly invest in the excellence of HPISD and set an example of leadership that inspires our community of Scots to give.

read moreWe are proud to play a part in directly impacting college affordability for our HPHS graduating seniors, for the children of our HPISD faculty, and for faculty seeking professional development opportunities and ways to bring creative learning to the classroom.

read moreWhat I love most about teaching at UP is seeing the power of community. We truly support each others learning, we cheer one another on, and together we become a classroom family. We laugh often, work hard, and enjoy the journey of figuring it all out as a team!

read moreOur vision is that HPISD will have the financial freedom to focus on educational excellence for all students, and that the entire HPISD community understands the critical budgetary needs of the District and faithfully supports the work of the Education Foundation in raising essential funds. The Tartan Endowment Fund is a permanent endowment that provides long-term financial stability to sustain and enhance the tradition of educational excellence in HPISD. The Tartan Endowment offers far-reaching solutions to achieve our ultimate goal of preserving the heritage of excellence of the Highland Park schools.