K-5 Joint Book Fair Success!

 The joint Kaneland Elementary Book Fair was a HUGE success. Thank you to all families and students who stopped out to enjoy the fair and on stage events!  We would like to personally thank our list of volunteers and on stage performers:  Ms. Steers, Ms. Bartholomew, Ms. Groen, Ms. Franck, Dr. Mumm, Mrs. McCoy, Mrs. Ward, Mr. Fox, Mrs. Reilley, Ms. Orman, Mrs. Dixon, Ms. Williams, Mrs, Yaggie and Miss Franz, Mrs. Christensen!

We are excited to announce that Barnes and Noble is extending our fair for 6 days.  If you were unable to attend on May 10th, please take time to take shopping code 12650313 to Barnes Noble between now and May 16th to earn credit for our local school libraries.  This is a great time to purchase your summer reading for all family members as well as gifts for graduates, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day!  Thank you again for supporting your local schools through this event!     

Congratulations!

Congratulations to KME MTSS Interventionist, DR. Jenelle Mance on earning her Doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in literacy education. Jenelle will be graduating from NIU this Friday. Way to go Jenelle! 

Teacher Appreciation Raffle from KCT Credit Union

In honor of teacher appreciation week, KCT is giving away two $50 Amazon gift cards every day this week! The details on how to enter are in the attached flyer.

Educator Advisory Council 2023-24

We are excited to begin to look ahead at building the Educator Advisory Council shared decision making process.  The Council had many crucial discussions and brought clarity to many key goals projected for EC-5.  At this time we are looking for members in the following seats for next year:

Teacher Leader Seat (this person does get two stipends, one for chair work and one for meeting time)

Early Childhood 

Kindergarten/1st Grade seats for KSS and KME 

2nd/3rd grade seats for KME

4th/5th grade seats for KSS

2 Exploratory Seats

If you have an interest in being an EAC member please email Sarah Mumm or Cindy Babich

K-5 Writing Focus for 2023-24

 After much discussion with grade level teams and Instructional Coaches, our district will be focusing on the narrative writing genre for the norming process.  This will give all of us an opportunity to see growth in narrative over the past years and to collect student samples to prepare for the future norming in years to come in opinion.  As you begin to consider the planning of your writing sequence please note that narrative samples for norming will be collected at the start and the end of the school year.