Reminder Sign Up Now for Kane County Day

We are excited about the learning opportunities coming up with Kane County Day. Here are the options for the day. Please remember that the work runs from 8:00-3:00. CPDU hours will be granted upon completion of the evaluation for the day. 

1) Remain on-site at your building and work on:

     -Work Session on Linking Your F and P book titles to Calkins Writing Rubric (Facilitator Anne                Olsen) 8:00-10:00 Location TBD, contact Sarah Mumm to sign up

    - Word Study (EC-5) Subgroup choice work group time as agreed upon by the grade span work                groups

    -Word Study optional PD with Coaches on how to get prepared and set up new word study materials, please contact Sarah Mumm to sign up 8:00-10:00 location TBD

     -Science Curriculum Review (for 6-12 science teams) 

     -Any work related to the 5 Kaneland Connects commitments (not to be done in isolation, please find a group/team to collaborate with)

    -Work as a gorup or independent time on Personalized Learning 3.0 evidence gathering

    -Dani Santo session on Supporting Multilingual Students with SIOP Best Practices 9:00-10:00, contact Sarah Mumm to sign up, Location TBD

    -Optional session for Personalized Learning Academy Staff to meet at Meredith for next steps planning (half day), contact Laura Garland to sign up 

2) Register for and attend any of the Kane County Offerings:

     -Please click here to register: https://kaneinstituteday2023.sched.com

     -Most of these sessions are held at the Q Center in St. Charles

     -Keynotes: Aaron Polansky and Monica Genta

    -Attend any of the Kane County partner sites (as noted on the Kane County ROE website)

   -Sign up PRIOR to February 9th 

    -If sessions cost funds, you MUST have School Admin approval prior to signing up

**Any offerings outside of Kane County will likely require additional fees and payments. This will require pre-approval from your building principal**

Opportuinty to Show Your Love

 There is still time to celebrate you!  We will be giving away 3 prizes to our amazing staff who submit how they are showing their love for the 5 Commitments and Kaneland Connects.  It could an example of one of the commitments, a letter from your students, a quick video showing your love for the plan!  You choose.  Make the product your own (personalizing at its best!)  All submissions must be sent to Sarah Mumm at 10358@kaneland.org by midnight on 2-18!  Let's celebrate all that you do for our students and learning and be rewarded too! 

Key Points from Collaborative Leading Well Book Study EC-5

Staff and Administration came together for another week of the Leading Well book study.  The following are key quotes that the team identified.  Take a moment to read and reflect on the key quotes and consider how your team/school exemplify the practice.    

  

If you establish a schoolwide approach to teaching writing, all your teachers - - not just your first- year teachers, . . will benefit from standing on each other's shoulders.

When messing up on something that's hard is not okay, when failures along the way are not okay, then you can forget about your school being a place where teacher or kids innovate and learn.

In this school we don’t teach alone. We collaborate. The work is too challenging for any one of us to be an expert in everything, and we all get smarter and stronger when we borrow each other’s ideas.

The single most important characteristic of an effective school is that teachers work collaboratively.

Teachers are now being asked to teach kids skills that we didn't learn until college.

People's learning curves will never be sky-high if they don't feel safe enough to take risks, to try something new, to admit confusion, to ask for help.

The more insecure you feel and the more transparent you are about that - the better.

In this school, we don't teach alone. We collaborate. The work is too challenging for any one of us to be an expert in everything, and we all get smarter and stronger.

We need to hold ourselves to the same behaviors we teach our students.

SINGLE most important characteristic of an effective school is that teachers work collaboratively

Intelligence needs to be socialized.

Too often, we brace ourselves against seeming vulnerable... we don't want to let others especially our colleagues and our leaders know that we are sometimes not sure how to do something.

Check Out Info on Tenet D

 The purpose of tenet D (student choice and voice) is to encourage and embed student choice and planning within learning.  To allow students to take the lead in making decision with content, process and product in learning.   Tenet D focuses on the purpose of creating opportunities for student voice and choice to be infused in learning is to actively engage students  in decision making about their own learning and learning environment. Tenet D in PL 3.0 asks that you show evidence of ways in which students have had an active voice in deciding their learning progression. Provide a comparison to how this has shifted compared to a teacher-led classroom.  Evidence should include your comparison chart along with student work samples and artifacts.  So far, we have had 58 staff members complete this tenet within PL 3.0! We are also excited to share that 6 more staff members have completed the entire Personalized Learning 3.0 Academy!  Kudos to our staff!  If you have any questions about evidence types, please feel free to reach out to Tiffany Reuter at KME. The video below shares several examples of how teachers in Kaneland are achieving this goal. 

Tenet D