Please make sure your links in classroom Canvas pages are updated with the most recent office hour links. We have been given some feedback on links that are not working on Canvas pages. Thank you so much for updating these for families.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
March "NOMINATE A KNIGHT" Opens
The next opportunity to Nominate a Knight opens today! The month's theme is building strong teacher-student relationships. If you would like to recognize a colleague for working hard to build strong relationships with students, colleagues, and/or the Kaneland community in general, please complete the nomination form HERE. Nominations for March close on Friday, March 26th.
February "NOMINATE A KNIGHT" Winner!
We are thrilled to share that our first Nominate a Knight opportunity garnered 41 nominees!! All nominations detailed incredible examples of Kaneland staff showing passion, flexibility, and a continuous drive to move forward and innovate within the classroom during challenging times. One winner, from among the 41 nominees, was selected at random. Congratulations to Sarah Linden! She was nominated by Faye Lacari for...
“Sarah has been teaching and learning remotely all year long. Early this year, Sarah decided to step outside of her comfort zone and begin metamorphosis. She has been vulnerable by reaching out for help when certain methods were not yielding the results that she had hoped for her students. Being remote, Sarah could have pulled away from her community of support, but she chose to lean in and learn. In the process, she has shared strategies and tips with her colleagues to empower them. Sarah's focus has remained on doing what is best for each of her students.
A customized IgKnighter Box O’ Fun is on its way to Sarah! Proud to have her on the Knights team!
Monday, March 1, 2021
K-5 Open House Updated Directions
Please see the updated directions to the K-5 Open House Video. Thank you to staff members who helped ad more structure to the process and shared samples. For the full document check out this link.
UPDATED PROCESS:
In order to answer a few questions posed and bring more clarity to the process for Open House the following are updated guidelines and due dates. Please see this as an opportunity to connect with families that we have not been able to see this year.
Please remember when making videos upload the video to youtube and embed the youtube link in your google slides so all families can have access
If you need any assistance at all please reach out to Educational Services, Instructional Coaches, or 1:1 Instructional LEarning Coach
By March 19th, Administration, Exploratories, RTI and LRC will post in the google docs below the video links for Teachers to cut and paste into their google slide presentation
Hybrid Teachers:
Please create a google slides presentation after March 19th including the following:
Cover Slide
Slide 2- Administration message
Slide 3- Classroom Teacher message
Slide 4- Exploratory message
Slide 5- RTI message
Slide 6- Student Reflection slide with the following questions
How have you grown as a learner this year?
What are some successes you have had in your hybrid learning environment this school year?
What are some goals you hope to achieve by the end of the school year?
How have you grown as a person this year?
Share when you persevered this year.
What did you enjoy about learning this year?
If a friend of yours started hybrid learning, what advice would you give them so they are most successful?
Slide 7- LRC BookFair
Request any support you need from Instructional Coaches for after school hours assistance with the google slides and videos.
On April 8th by 4:00pm All staff send out their link to the google slides presentation for their specific families
Full Remote Teachers:
Please create a google slides presentation after March 19th including the following:
Cover Slide
Slide 2- Administration message
Slide 3- Classroom Teacher message
Slide 4- Student Reflection slide with the following questions
How have you grown as a learner this year?
What are some successes you have had in your remote learning environment this school year?
What are some goals you hope to achieve by the end of the school year?
How have you grown as a person this year?
Share when you persevered this year.
What did you enjoy about learning from home?
If a friend of yours started remote learning, what advice would you give them so they are most successful?
Slide 5- LRC BookFair
On April 8th at the end of the day, please email your classroom families the link to the google slides presentation
Templates and Examples:
Google Slides Template (feel free to use by making a copy and saving it as your own)
Example Classroom Teacher Video (thank you to KSS KPASS Teachers for the sample)
Guess the Publication Date!
Thanks to everyone who played Guess the Publication Date! There were so many correct submissions, and "No", using your resources, including Google, is not cheating! I love that so many were motivated enough to try to find the date! The quote...
"I will argue that “equality of quality” in education cannot be achieved by forcing all students to take exactly the same course of study, nor can the ideal of a democratic, classless society be actualized by establishing only one mode of excellence"...
is by Nel Noddings in her article, The False Promise of the Paideia, published in the Journal of Thought in 1983. In this article, Noddings attacks a proposal to eliminate elective courses and provide a single, uniform curricular sequence for all students. Thanks, in part, to Noddings, students continue to have an element of choice in the high school courses they take.
The winner, chosen at random from among many correct guesses, is Lisa Campise! A treat is on its way to her!
Let's play again!! When was the quote below published?? Send your guess to Laura at 10166@kaneland.org
"Education is now to develop a type of wisdom that can grow only out of participation in the living experiences of men, and never out of the mere memorization of verbal statements of fact”
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