What is a Coure Homepage

What is a Course homepage?

A home page is the landing place for anyone who visits a Canvas course. It typically
includes the instructor’s name and the title of the course along with a welcome message.
As we all get comfortable navigating the Canvas LMS in this rollout year, some teachers
have opted to include a home page statement about how they plan to use Canvas this year.

These two links provide examples of excellent home pages - many are from our own
Kaneland teachers!

Sample K-5 Sample 6-12

Course Homepage Info 

Final Call for Learner Profile

On Friday, September 20th, we will be closing the Canvas course for the Learner Profile student reflection. If you have not already, please take the time to have your students complete this. For our EC-3rd grade teachers, please make sure to have those in the mail to Sarah by Friday afternoon. We will be printing the 4th-12th responses next week and scoring them with the admin team. Our ad team will be going through training these next couple of weeks to ensure inter-rater reliability!

Initiatives Timeline

EC-12 staff are excited to have the annual initiates review meeting on Wednesday the 15th.  Here is the current document the EC-12 team will review at the annual initiatives meeting. Please take time to share any feedback or questions you would like answered with your KEA rep.  Thanks

Product vs. Process

Over the course of this year and the next few years (yep, that's right this is here to stay), the district will be dedicating their efforts to the drafting of proficiency tables.  This process is a longer process that really takes us on on a journey through discussion, debate, and shared decision making.  The process is the true work that will in the end produce a very useful product.  Proficiency tables are NOT rubrics, but are rather a detailed description of what proficiency should look like, sound like, and feel like for students.  The tables can be used, once created, to share expectations, further create a rubric for an assignment, develop a customized path for student learning, or clarify for parents the expectations in learning.  We want all staff to engage in the process and not get hung up on completion of a product too quickly.  These tables are only as good as we make them, and if we rush the process the product will be rushed and not as useful for future work. Please take time in your teams and focus on teacher clarity of the expectations for proficiency, the product will come!  We will be monitoring the timeline of your work in order to make it flexible to your needs as a team.  Please engage in discussion and thoughtful creation during these work times.