William Dever Elementary News Today

After a gunman opened fire at a July 4th parade, Highland Park schools provided mental health services to families grappling with trauma from the shooting that claimed seven lives and wounded dozens more.

Zoe Kolpack was standing along the Highland Park Fourth of July parade route when she and three of her family members were shot.

School shootings have become an ever-present fear, and teachers receive extensive training in how to respond to mass shootings, but Chicago Public Schools teacher Zoe Kolpack was watching the Highland Park parade with her husband, their two young children and other relatives when this mass shooting began Monday.

Zoe Kolpack was standing along the Highland Park Fourth of July parade route when she and three of her family members were shot.

Zoe Kolpack, a pre-kindergarten teacher at William Dever Elementary, and her husband were among those wounded during Monday's mass shooting. A GoFundMe has already collected more than $130,000 for their medical bills.

Chicago preschool teacher Zoe Kolpack was at the parade with her two young children, husband Stephen, her father Mike and brother-in-law Nick when the shots rang out as a rooftop gunman fired into the crowds of spectators, leaving seven dead and at least 30 more wounded.

School shootings have become an ever-present fear and teachers receiving extensive training in how to respond to mass shootings, but Chicago Public Schools teacher Zoe Kolpack was watching the Highland Park parade with her husband, their two young children and other relatives when this mass shooting began Monday.

CPS officials said they had been in touch with teacher Zoe Kolpack Tuesday morning as she begins her recovery.