Kane County Day Initial Registration

Please click this link to review the initial registration information for Kane County Institute Day 2018.

Kane County Day

Tomorrow, the Regional Office of Education will share initial registration information for Kane County Day.  Please remember that at this time you are selecting only your site, so please peruse the offerings at each site and select which site you'd like to attend.  At a later date, you will be able to select the specific sessions you'd like to attend at that site.

Kaneland is a host site this year, and we would like to encourage you to consider attending the offerings here.  Our focus will be personalized learning, and we will once again be lucky to have sessions hosted by your peers as well as the Institute for Personalized Learning.  The Institute will be bringing practitioners with them this time who can answer specific questions about what implementation in a classroom looks like.  They've also redesigned their sessions to include more time for conversation among peers and planning for how to implement.

And, perhaps best of all, we will NOT assign their sessions to the cafeteria!

IgKnighter Fellowship Opportunity

We are proud to introduce a new opportunity for focused professional development for those interested--the IgKnighter fellowship!

The IgKnighter Fellowship is designed for those that want to take the lead in implementing personalized learning through the three core honeycomb cells.   The fellowship brings staff together who want to take action prior to the district-wide Kaneland 2020 implementation timelines and empowers them with support and a teacher leader role in the planning and implementation of district-wide professional development.

For more information, please click here for a link to an informational flyer.

January Happenings to Look Forward To!

Although we know the excitment is growing for a holiday break, we would like to share some key dates and excitement for January.  Please note these events:
January 8- First Day Back!
January 8- TAC for EC-5
January 11- District Spelling Bee
January 11-IgKnighter informational meeting
January 15- No School
January 17- BOE Meeting, note the Wednesday date
AIMSweb at the K-5 level will begin the first week back
Winter data days will be in January
January 18- 1st-6th grade PDS Seminar at HMS 4:00
January 18- PDS Site Council 4:00
January 22-6-12 AAC/OC @ KHMS at 3:30
January 22-K-5 TIC @ KHMS at 4:15

School Day Research Committee Update

The results of the recent poll regarding interest in expanding proposals tied to changes to the school day are in.  The is an overwhelming interest in completing the proposals and moving them forward in an official manner.

At this time, the committee will create proposals and seek a final round of feedback concerning:

• Adjusting start times for various levels
• Building emergency days into the calendar
• Creating schedules during the school day conducive to personalized learning environments

As the proposals are finalized, there will be times publicized to share and seek further input from stakeholders.  Please be on the lookout for this information and your opportunity to learn more and share your voice.